While the media will be focusing on union activists at today’s teacher march, I’ll be thinking about a young man named Junior. In 2016, a sobering documentary titled “Raising Bertie”…
JLF’s Terry Stoops writes for Carolina Journal‘s Daily Journal that while the media will be focusing on union activists at today’s teacher march, he’ll be thinking about a young man named…
Will Rierson reports for Carolina Journal Online on the Institute of Political Leadrship’s Hometown Debate involving the proposed state constitutional amendment dealing with judicial vacancies. Terry Stoops’ Daily Journal emphasizes…
According to The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a charter school desert is “three or more contiguous census tracts that have poverty rates greater than 20 percent but that have no…
How do we close achievement gaps between students from different racial and socioeconomic groups? One idea is to assign at-risk students to a better teacher. In “Do School Learning Opportunities…
At a community forum last week, Durham Public Schools superintendent Pascal Mubenga said that, due to charter schools, “If Durham is not careful, its schools will become segregated like they…
A new Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis working paper examines educational opportunities for elementary and middle school students in nearly all U.S. school districts. Stanford University researcher Sean Reardon,…
In a widely-read Facebook post, economist Steve Horwitz, visiting scholar at Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise at Ball State, dissects the opposition to school choice: Sorry folks, but…
The Center for Education Policy Analysis recently unveiled the impressive Stanford Education Data Archive. According to Education Week, researchers from Stanford and Harvard used the data to analyze the “average…
View in your browser. Welcome Why do African American students receive a disproportionate number of short- and long-term suspensions from classroom teachers and administrators? Some have suggested that cultural, racial,…
As the General Assembly continues their discussion of sales tax distribution trying to find a balance that is fair and equitable for all NC counties, Sen David Curtis raises the issue…
I read recently the following. The author decried poverty in North Carolina, and among other things noted that “25% of our innocent children” and almost “40% of our children of…