Education
Ladd vs. Peterson on education and poverty
View in your browser. Welcome In the Summer 2012 issue of Education Next, Harvard University professor Paul Peterson responds to a speech on education and poverty by Helen Ladd of…
Carteret Community College
Education
The First Annual Education Statistical-palooza
View in your browser. The First Annual Education Statistical-palooza Welcome The NC Department of Public Instruction has released their annual "Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget" document. Highlights…
Education
State Board of Education response to charter growth
View in your browser. Welcome Later this week, the State Board of Education (SBE) will determine the fate of nine "fast-track" charter schools. The state’s Public Charter School Advisory Council…
Education
NC is 42nd (not 49th) in per-pupil spending
View in your browser. Welcome I have spent months countering the "49th in the nation myth," a talking point manufactured by public school advocacy groups to attack the budget approved…
Education
School choice: Crime-fighter
View in your browser. Welcome There is love in the air on this Valentine’s Day. Of course, I am talking about love for school choice! What other kind of love…
Energy
Panel to highlight wind energy myths tonight in Morehead City workshop
Head to Carteret Community College at 7 p.m. to hear a John Locke Foundation-assembled panel tackle a series of myths associated with wind energy. It’s a repeat performance of this…
Energy
Wind power myths rebutted during Wilmington workshop
The N.C. Utilities Commission hears arguments this morning for and against Pantego Wind Energy, a proposed 11-thousand-acre wind energy project off the Beaufort County coast. As the commission prepares to…
Education
Time is not on their side
View in your browser. Welcome Like a freakin’ zombie, the idea to lengthen the school year never dies. I do my best to slay the "undead" in this week’s CommenTerry.…
Liberty
Climategate II emails reveal BBC and EAU Climate Research Unit collude to blackball skeptics
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
Education
Twitter Tales: I got dumped by Diane Ravitch
View in your browser. Welcome Why did Diane do it? Find out in this week’s CommenTerry … and follow me on Twitter @TerryStoops. Bulletin Board The John Locke Foundation is…
Liberty
FEE president heads to Morehead City next month
Regular readers of this forum have benefited from Lawrence Reed‘s words of wisdom. Now the president of the Foundation for Economic Education is heading to Carteret Community College in Morehead…