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Critics of school choice claim the practice privatizes education, siphons money from the public schools, and changes how schoolchildren are educated. While a review of enrollments shows a slight uptick…
N.C. Sen. Richard Burr plans to support Cindy Marten to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. That would be a mistake. Biden supporter Joe Nathan of…
The Network for Public Education, a radical left-wing advocacy organization founded by Diane Ravitch and Anthony Cody, will hold its third annual meeting in Raleigh this weekend. The conference theme…
There has been a lot of talk about the proposed teacher pay plan introduced by Republican leaders last week. The Left is outraged! But weeks before McCrory, Forest, Berger, and…
An appointed bureaucrat does not necessarily have to answer or listen to the public. So it is with Dr. John King, Jr., he is appointed by the New York State…
Diane Ravitch disapproves of Governor McCrory’s new education advisor, Eric Guckian. (The left uses the word “unenthusiastic” to describe her take on Guckian.) Apparently, Ravitch can discern the quality of…
Diane Ravitch doesn’t like much of the education legislation proposed by members of the NC General Assembly. She doesn’t like it at all. In a recent blog post, she pleads,…
This US map shows the growing concerns in states regarding Common Core Standards. North Carolina is one of the “Waiting for Reality” states. By end of March, Gov. McCrory will…
Websites for WRAL Television, the News & Observer, and the Fayetteville Observer all highlighted John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research Roy Cordato‘s participation in the Heartland Institute’s letter campaign…
Education pundit Diane Ravitch does her best to exploit the Newtown shootings to advance her own political agenda. And, no, we are not talking about a gun control agenda. In…
North Carolina advocates of school choice may find events in Louisiana of interest. Three times in two months courts in the Pelican State have ruled against the Louisiana Association of…
The notion that the United States faces a higher education bubble and that college has been oversold is not news to regular readers in this forum. A new article on…