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WSFCS clamping down on workers comp
In a move that does not require a vote of the Board of Education, Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Beverly Emory will put in place a stricter workers comp program designed…
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Volokh brother analyzes voucher decision
At the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy law blog, Emory University law professor Sasha Volokh (full disclosure: he was on the research staff at the Reason Foundation when I was an…
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Common Core English Standards “critically flawed”
What we know about North Carolina’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards has changed since the John Locke Foundation released 35 Questions About Common Core: Answers for North Carolinians in April…
Education
List of key Common Core questions continues to expand
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — Just five months after releasing a report that outlined key questions surrounding…
Education
Report answers common questions about controversial Common Core standards
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — New public school standards dubbed the Common Core are generating questions for…
Education
More academic fraud
Or rather fraud in academia. This time at Emory University, which was reporting false data — average SAT scores and class rank of incoming students — to make itself look…
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Another response to Jane Mayer’s hit piece
Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein responds here to the recent hit piece Jane Mayer wrote for The New Yorker on Art Pope. He calls it poor journalism and shows…
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More Women-Are-Special Journalism
You read this kind of story in 1969, 1979, 1989, and 1999. And now the Duke Chronicle writes it again in 2011 — the wonderful and great things that come…
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Another conservative history
There are two types of people in the world: those who assign everyone to one of two opposing categories, and those who don’t. That thought crossed my mind a number…
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Today’s Carolina Journal Online features
This week’s Carolina Journal Online Friday interview features a conversation with Emory University English professor Mark Bauerlein about his recent book, The Dumbest Generation. Troy Kickler’s guest Daily Journal examines…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
State lawmakers return to Raleigh for the 2009 legislative session in the next week. Becki Gray will explain some of the key issues those lawmakers will face, when she appears…
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Dissecting education issues
In general, North Carolina’s public school systems are not particularly “parent-friendly.” That’s the conclusion John Locke Foundation Education Policy Analyst Terry Stoops reached in a recent report. The Greensboro News…