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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 4:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Friday, GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced new academic standards for the state, shoving out the Common Core standards that had been implemented in the state in 2010, just one year after he started pushing for jettisoning those standards.
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2020 @ 10:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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The world’s workforce pipeline pulses with top talent, yet American education remains mired in mediocrity.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Classic literature has fallen from favor in English class. The movement away from the literary canon, begun decades ago, has accelerated rapidly following adoption of Common Core standards by most states eight years ago
Published: Saturday, September 1st, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Here are the big election cycle political issues and Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's positions on what each wants to see and make happen...
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 3:30 am
By: Jim Kouri
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It's back-to-school time and parents everywhere want not only to encourage their children academically, but also want to know how their child's school is performing.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you thought the debate over Common Core Standards was over; think again. It may be only starting - again
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 1:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Project Veritas, the investigative journalism outfit led by James O'Keefe and known for explosive undercover videos, released their latest work - an investigation into Common Core and the big money being made off the controversial standards.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2016 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Members of a state legislative panel are concerned that a new federal education law could keep in place controversial Common Core educational standards that dictate to states how students are taught and what they must learn.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 11:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two months after the Academic Standards Review Commission issued its final report, the fate of Common Core in North Carolina is far from settled.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 5:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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From the start, the Republican primary race between businesswoman Holly Grange and conservative activist and New Hanover County Board of Education member Tammy Covil has been a heated one.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Almost exactly 15 years ago, I wrote an education reform plan for the John Locke Foundation entitled “Reach for the STARS."
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After fifteen months of work, the ASRC is in the process of finalizing their reports and submitting them to the State Board of Education and General Assembly. Their work has been thorough and has included surveys, examination of other standards in other states, testimony from experts and parents.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 10:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the last few weeks, the Raleigh News and Observer (along with its sister outlet, the Charlotte Observer) has been waging war on the opponents of Common Core and in particular on the Academic Standards Review Commission, the body tasked with reviewing the math and English standards and...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, December 18th, the North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) tasked with providing recommendations to replace Common Core standards held their last meeting. All indications over the prior fourteen months of meetings pointed to substantial changes being recommended.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The News & Observer is doing its darnedest to ignore the growing criticism of Common Core standards. The paper's recent editorial "Defending Common Core" was an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you're a frequent visitor to Mapping the Left (mappingtheleft.com) you have watched the website go through a transformation in the last few weeks. The look is new and mappingtheleft.com has been redesigned with advanced capabilities. You will notice faster and more powerful, yet simple...
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 6:35 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ten years ago, the University of North Carolina began raising minimum admission requirements for all schools in the system. Those changes worked, helping to raise retention and graduation rates since their implementation. Thirty-five percent of 2005 freshmen graduated four years later. By 2010...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 12:22 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The new school year is fast approaching, but policymakers remain rattled by testing boycotts that swept the nation this spring. From New York to California, hundreds of thousands of parents pulled their children out of end-of-year tests.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If organizers of East Carolina University's first Eastern North Carolina Writing Symposium have their way, future classes of incoming students will arrive on campus with significant writing skills.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Professor Terrance Moore of Hillsdale College presents "How Common Core Destroys the Minds and Souls of our Children"
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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When seventh-grade science teacher and East Carolina University alumnus Tim Hardison learned his fellow Martin County residents had the shortest life expectancy in the state, he wanted to know why. So he dug a little deeper and discovered his rural, economically challenged county also had...
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 12:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Texas, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York, and North Carolina are in an exclusive club. Can you guess its membership policy?
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2015 @ 9:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wednesday marked the five-year anniversary of the adoption of the Common Core State Standards in North Carolina. How did you celebrate?
Published: Saturday, June 20th, 2015 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston of the Public School Forum argues against changing the Common Core math and English standards, since he believes members of the state's Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) are working to...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 2:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In his article "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston argues against revisions to the current Common Core standards and the importance of ensuring teachers have a voice in this discussion. In a two-part response, I argue, in part one...
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 8:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today North Carolina released A-F grades for all traditional public and charter schools. News outlets have been all over the story and pundits are angling to put a spin on what is expected to be a tough day for many schools.
Published: Saturday, February 21st, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I’ve never been a big fan of study commissions organized by politicians. They are almost always easy ways out for politicians looking to avoid having to take a tough stand on a controversial issue.
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 7:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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