Nat Malkus and Sam Hollon explore the continuing impact of the nation’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and schools’ responses to it resulted in learning loss…
The agency may not have test scores to report, but the N.C. Department of Public Instruction announced that the state’s cohort (4-year) graduation rate hit 87.6% last school year. Last…
On Thursday, state education officials released 2016-17 accountability results for all North Carolina district and charter schools. Overall, there was little difference in the performance of schools last year compared…
Well, the NC Department of Public Instruction reports, “For the 10th consecutive year, North Carolina’s four-year cohort high school graduation rate is up and is now at 85.4 percent.” On…
JLF’s Terry Stoops reports here on the sad fact that huge percentages of incoming freshmen to North Carolina’s community colleges don’t possess basic skills and, thus, enroll in remedial classes.…
View in your browser. Welcome Statewide test scores and graduation rates for the 2013-14 school year were released yesterday. Did we receive good news, bad news, or a little of…
That’s the very good news. Now the bad news from a public policy perceptive: We really don’t know with any degree of certainty what factors were behind the 15 percentage…
From the time the General Assembly changed hands from Democrat to Republican in January 2011, the state’s education establishment has spun a host of tales of woe and cruelty about…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina ranks No. 26 nationally in a first-of-its-kind compilation of state public school graduation rates. Michael Lowrey’s Daily Journal explains how…
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online that North Carolina state education policy could face major changes under a new governor. Speaking of Education, Terry Stoops’ Daily Journal focuses on…
In a recent blog post, Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson wrote, Some have said that the North Carolina’s all-time high graduation rate must be a product of the state’s…
JLF’s Director of Education Studies, Terry Stoops, analyzes the issue of quality versus quantity in education as it relates to North Carolina’s high school graduation rate. While a higher graduation…