Reihan Salam of National Review Online ties the history of the public clock to an economic lesson we still can learn today. Economists attempting to understand the relationship between new…
Protip for the Triangle media: Wake County’s new superintendent, Jim Merrill, is a career administrator, not a career educator. An educator provides instruction. An administrator manages the enterprise that allows…
This past weekend, John Stossel compared the increase of K-12 students to the increase of personnel in schools during 1950 till 2009. The show aired on Fox Business. The education…
The Rhino’s Paul Clark digs into the sudden resignation of its highest-paid principal, Smith High School’s Noah Rogers. Apparently Rogers defrauded both Guilford County Schools and the poor guy who…
Seemed odd that Ben L. Smith High School principal Noah Rogers abruptly resigned with the school year about to wrap up and with just a few weeks left on his…
In a recent blog post, Bill Harrison, chair of the NC State Board of Education, urges teachers to take the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey, which will be will…
While the Rhino article concedes that the $6.2 million is raises handed to select Guilford County Schools administrators and principals “are small potatoes compared to the total it spends on…
The Rhino writes up the 2012 Guilford County Schools “Employee Climate Survey.” Indeed it is interesting reading. The good news is an overwhelming majority —88 percent— of employees expressed confidence…
Franklin High School instituted a dress code, indicating certain parts of the human body are not for public consumption. Following this success, it is hoped the school’s principal will carry…
The N&R (unposted) follows up the Rhino story on the hiring of a ‘contractor’ to help Eastern Guilford High School principal Gregg Slate monitor discipline problems. Both publications look at…
Alamance-Burlington Schools Interim Superintendent Del Burns has a presented a plan to the school board that will downsize the central office. Note the ‘interim’ before Burns’ title; he’s making way…
Ann Helms asked for a walk-through of the Pay for Performance plan CMS has on deck. What she got back from Andrew Baxter, an analyst in CMS’ Senior Assessment Program…