This review of “Sound Basic Education for All: An Action Plan for North Carolina” by California-based consultant WestEd will focus on student performance. “Sound Basic Education for All” offers an…
RAND recently published its evaluation of a Pittsburgh Public Schools initiative, “Pursuing Equitable and Restorative Communities” (PERC), that used nonpunitive approaches, rather than traditional punishments like detention and suspension, to address…
I have never met Ned Barnett, the associate opinion editor of the News & Observer. But he shows me a little love in an op-ed published today: Terry Stoops, vice…
The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released the 2018-19 state accountability results this week. The release included end-of-grade and end-of-course test results, growth (or value-added) scores, school performance grades, graduation…
On September 6, the State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction released state test scores and other accountability measures for the 2017-18 school year. Compared to the year…
The above statement comes from a Mathematica Policy Research assessment of Race to the Top (RTT), a federal grant program that awarded more than $4 billion dollars in grants to…
Here is an excerpt from an interesting piece on federal Preschool Development Grants (and preschool programs generally) by a fellow at the Brookings Institution, State pre-K, like Head Start, is…
Lindsey Burke and Salim Furth write for the Heritage Foundation about new research questioning the value of large-scale preschool programs. A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that universal preschool…
View in your browser. Welcome Niche.com recently released their K-12 School and District Rankings. Where did your local school district land on the ranking? How much did they spend to…
Last Thursday, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released their annual report of graduation rates and test results. Again, the 2013-14 results leave us with more questions than answers. In…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — A survey of nearly 900 academic studies from the past quarter-century shows…
Look beyond the opening lines about the “especially admirable” statements President Obama has made regarding college affordability, and Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane offers a pretty good view of…