The release of annual state test scores earlier this week at the State Board of Education generated a lot of smiles. Highlights included: Graduation Rates. Data revealed record high graduation…
Editors at National Review Online assess the results of an experiment in California higher education. In May of 2020, the University of California school system, with its over 300,000 students…
This series tests North Carolina public schools using education scholar Mike McShane’s three-pronged approach to accountability: financial, democratic, and educational. The first part found that North Carolina public schools lacked…
Public schools are accountable. It’s a claim often repeated by lawmakers, teachers, administrators, and education activists. But are they? What does it mean to be accountable? Despite an apparatus of…
In 2023–24, North Carolina spent about $10.7 billion on K–12 public schools. If you include money from federal and local sources, total spending for K–12 education reached over $18 billion.…
On June 6, the North Carolina State Board of Education (SBE) approved new academic content standards for K–12 Healthful Living. The standards determine the content that the state thinks students…
Editors at National Review Online decry New York’s new approach toward educating high school students. Last Monday, the New York Times reported that an advisory group for New York’s Education…
In places, a progressive environmentalism infects the science standards.
Last week, the State Board of Education approved a resolution to move ahead with a framework to create a new way to license and pay teachers. Currently teachers are paid…
Today, state education officials released 2021-22 testing results and graduation rates for all North Carolina public schools. Scores from the 2020-21 school year were sobering. The North Carolina Department of…
Last week, the North Carolina State Board of Education approved a request to begin drafting new science and healthful living standards for public schools. There is a lot at stake.…
I strongly oppose proposed rules that would impose onerous and ultimately harmful requirements for competitive grants under the federal Charter Schools Program. The proposed “community impact analysis” is among the…