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View in your browser. Welcome As state education officials and education advocacy organization continue to demonstrate, it is easier to talk about the need to increase education funding (or to…
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…
Privacy advocates are speaking out about a national student data tracking system that is receiving detailed personal information about school kids. Guilford County Schools is participating. The Shared Learning Infrastructure,…
Fareed Zakaria devotes his latest TIME magazine column to the facts surrounding the nation’s growing entitlement crisis. The facts are hard to dispute. In 1900, 1 in 25 Americans was…
Beyond the humorous observations, Joel Stein‘s latest “Awesome Column” for TIME raises some serious questions about the new Common Core standards that will impact the education of public school students…
View in your browser. Welcome Yes, you heard that right. We are tied for 26th! This week’s CommenTerry explains. Bulletin Board The John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy…
Governor-elect Pat McCrory was in Raleigh Thursday to meet with outgoing Gov. Bev Perdue to discuss transition procedures. He also took some time to meet with the press and introduce…
The National Governors Association has a nice map of the gubernatorial races to be decided on Nov. 6. Among them, of course, is North Carolina, where Democrat Walter Dalton, Republican…
Remember when N.C. Gov. Bev Perdue suggested we bypass elections in 2012, and she and her supporters, and they include The News & Observer, tried to claim it was just…
Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Terry Stoops discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina should dump certification and licensing rules that place artificial limits…
The NC Department of Public Instruction explains how national and state standards work together (kinda). North Carolina has signed on to a consortium of 48 states that is working jointly…
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Donna Martinez’s report on Hillsborough’s decision to drop plans for a ban on smokeless tobacco products in town-owned parks. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains…