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Starting the in 1970s, teacher unions began politicizing teacher spending on classroom items. Teachers’ out-of-pocket expenditures reportedly range from $500 to $1,000 a year, but these estimates are incomplete or unreliable.…
Casey Chalk writes for the Federalist about the negative impact of policies related to COVID-19 and education indoctrination. The kids are not all right. The number of school shootings in…
Currently, North Carolina’s middle school health standards require educators to address various environmental problems. Likewise, environmentalism is a central component of state science standards for middle and high school students.…
Jeremiah Poff of the Washington Examiner highlights one impact of the rash of school closings tied to COVID-19. The failure of many public schools to reopen during the 2020-2021 school…
Because teachers have the option of declining summer employment, summer learning programs designed to address learning loss may be short-staffed. Reasons for opting out of the summer learning programs vary,…
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about N.C. State University’s “quixotic” foreign language requirement. For decades, universities have required students to fulfill a foreign language requirement. However, some research…
Academic performance continues to disappoint: The average reading score for the nation’s twelfth-graders declined between 2015 and 2019 and there was no statistically significant change in twelfth-graders’ average mathematics score…
The National Center for Education Statistics recently published The Condition of Education 2020, which is a compendium of education statistics and data collected and compiled by NCES researchers. One of…
The Office of the State Auditor released the Statewide Single Audit Report yesterday. Findings related to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction include: The Department did not effectively monitor spending…
Courtesy of Education Week: 43 states, 4 U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia have ordered or recommended school building closures for the rest of the academic year, affecting approximately 45.1…
Laura Wright, an English professor at Western Carolina, opines in today’s Raleigh News & Observer, “For more than a decade, the salary stranglehold on UNC system faculty has been perpetuated…
[3:15 p.m. note: This post has been edited to correct an error in the original article.] David Waugh writes for the Martin Center about poor graduation rates among N.C. colleges.…