Education
Average class sizes, 2016-17
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction has released its 2016-17 report card data. The average class sizes were as follows: Grade/Course Average Class Size (2016-17) Kindergarten 19 01 19 02…
Biology
scientific study of living things, especially their structure, function, growth, evolution, and distribution
Liberty
Propaganda in Testing, Part 4
In this week’s Environment Update, Roy Cordato concludes a four part series looking at North Carolina End of Course Test questions in biology and their use more as propaganda than…
Education
More End of Course Test Propaganda
In today’s environmental newsletter, Roy Cordato continues his series on End of Course Test questions in Biology that actually have little to do with science and everything to do with…
Liberty
NC Public Schools: Using End of Course Test to Spread Environmentalist Propaganda — Part 3
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Liberty
NC Public Schools: Using End of Course Test to Spread Environmentalist Propaganda — Part 2
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Liberty
NC Public Schools Using End of Course Test to Spread Environmentalist Propaganda
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Liberty
Science?
Our JLF Director of Research and K-12 Education Studies Terry Stoops called my attention to the following question from the North Carolina state biology exam put together by the Department…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
How the Republicans changed public education
The NC Department of Public Instruction released the 2011-2012 School Report Cards today. The report cards allow us to compare year-to-year changes in a number of areas, including performance, class…
Education
Re: NEA Environmental Education (Stoops)
First I want to say that, with regards to Terry’s last line I think he is lying. He is not wondering anything of the sort. He knows that these folks…
Liberty
Public school propaganda machines in full swing
Do today’s testing results show that our public schools are raising student achievement? School districts seem to think so. Take this Charlotte-Mecklenburg press release, for example, State results released Aug.…
Liberty
Test scores are in…kinda
For the 2007 – 2008 school year, 82 percent of our public schools met or exceeded growth standards. …but wait. In April, the State Board of Education removed End-of Grade…
Liberty
State test scores released
The NC Department of Public Instruction officially released the ABCs report for 2006-07. The report details student performance on the state?s end-of-grade and end-of-course tests. Before the release of the…