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Lawmakers, Educators Meet in Greensboro to Address Dropout Crisis, Ways to Promote Students’ SuccessOn Friday, North Carolina legislators and public higher education officials gathered at UNC Greensboro to discuss “Unlikely,” a documentary film about America’s college dropout crisis.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 4:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last month various state and national media outlets reported North Carolina State University (NCSU) approved a Ph.D. program concentration in "social justice education."
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2019 @ 11:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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What should we expect when we invest $150 million in reading programs for our elementary students? I'm not sure what the objectives were, but I am pretty certain the results weren't what anyone wanted
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2018 @ 12:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The education web site EdNC.org, recently ran an article by Adam Rhew that sounded the alarm about the lack of diversity among teachers in North Carolina’s public schools
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 6:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, Natalie Hopkinson of Howard University wrote a piece for Huffington Post suggesting that school choice was - you guessed it - racist.
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the school where I taught for almost 35 years, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, campus leaders continue their rush to respond to the BlackOut demands put forth by black student leaders last spring
Published: Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 7:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Vijay-who used his authentic middle name, JoJo, and the description "star point guard for my family's beloved Celtics" on his applications-is the son of Indian immigrants, his mother a highly regarded Boston ob-gyn and his father an architect
Published: Saturday, November 19th, 2016 @ 1:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Following a particularly tumultuous year, Duke University has issued a lengthy report to address “bias and hate” on campus
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2016 @ 3:33 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The term "Zero Tolerance," as it applies to school policies, is well known in society. Examples that might come to mind include a seven-year-old being suspended for eating a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun or a teen being suspended for wearing an American flag shirt.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2016 @ 6:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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When it comes to race and gender, our major colleges and universities can usually be expected to come to the wrong conclusions and make unwise, often outrageous decisions
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 6:00 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two years ago I attended a student debate at North Carolina Central University, one of the state's five public historically black colleges and universities
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 12:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Opal Tometi, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, challenged East Carolina University students to make a difference during the N.C. Civility Summit on Saturday.
Published: Friday, March 4th, 2016 @ 12:52 am
By: ECU News Services
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The University of Pennsylvania has promised $100 million to increase faculty diversity. Yale has just pledged $50 million, Johns Hopkins $25 million. These sums are large, but the goal has been an object of urgent attention for decades
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 3:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The N.C. Civility Summit, aimed at promoting understanding and positive change on East Carolina University's campus and beyond, will feature keynote speaker Opal Tometi, executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2016 @ 6:18 am
By: ECU News Services
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Nearly three months have passed since student protests upended the institution where I teach law, the University of Missouri (Mizzou). There have been several changes on the Columbia campus.
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 10:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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This phenomenon has been spreading across the country - from campus to campus - whipping up a liberal frenzy just in time for election season. The developments have me drawing comparisons to George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm''.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, along with the massacre of nine black churchgoers last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, created racial hysteria and gave rise to an anti-intellectual movement that has now extended to American campuses
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: John William Pope Center
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This year, the Los Angeles Unified School District implemented a new "restorative justice" discipline policy that, according to an article published in the Los Angeles Times, "seeks to resolve conflicts through talking circles and other methods to build trust."
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If one is looking for clues regarding what universities think a college education should be about, one obvious place to look is their freshman summer reading programs
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The new slate of officers guiding East Carolina University's Student Government Association has made transparency in campus leadership activities a top priority for the upcoming school year.
Published: Monday, July 13th, 2015 @ 6:10 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Does that name ring a bell? In 1993, President Clinton nominated Lani Guinier for the position of assistant attorney general, but later he withdrew her nomination after her writings on voting and affirmative action came under severe criticism.
Published: Saturday, June 20th, 2015 @ 1:04 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Call me a starry-eyed optimist. I don't assume that those who disagree with me about school reform are out to destroy the education system. I assume they share my goal of expanding educational opportunities and getting a better rate of return on money spent on schools. We simply disagree about...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 2:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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They tried, but failed, to nail the lacrosse team. They tried with this "noose story" that showed up in April and quickly faded away. How come the marches stopped?
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 6:06 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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