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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) teachers will see a bump in pay courtesy of the new county budget. On Twitter, Ann Doss Helms of the Charlotte Observer writes, “Lots of teachers &…
That’s a quote from one of the people who’s on the losing end of Philadelphia’s new soda tax. Reason reports that, according to libertarian John Stossel, a $2 liter bottle…
Here is an excerpt from an interesting piece on federal Preschool Development Grants (and preschool programs generally) by a fellow at the Brookings Institution, State pre-K, like Head Start, is…
Those who sing the praises of prekindergarten education might want to peruse Yale lecturer Erika Christakis’ article in the latest issue of The Atlantic. Until recently, school-readiness skills weren’t high…
Researchers at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody Research Institute found that gains from participation in the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten (TN-VPK) program did not last. In A Randomized Control Trial of a Statewide…
The new Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA) is being used throughout the state this fall. The KEA is the beginning of an assessment tool called, NC K-3 Formative Assessment Process. Teachers use…
North Carolina kindergartners arriving at school this fall will be given the new Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA). In fact, this assessment has to be completed the first 60 days of…
The State Board of Education usually votes on contracts every month with one fell swoop. Next week the Board has a hefty list of 46 pages consisting of 74 individual…
John Hood points out the truth that progressives simply ignore about choice in education. I’ve made this point before, but it’s worth emphasizing one more time: those who oppose school…
[An education administrator] explained a graph showing that Henderson County, for all its affluence and its above-average test scores in public schools, ranks below average in kindergarten readiness. 1. How…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek features an article on Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman’s advocacy for increased taxpayer funding of prekindergarten programs. Read just the headline (especially the online version’s declaration…
John Hood weighs in on the latest installment in the long-running Leandro education lawsuit in our state. The case is back in court today. A key point: there is no…