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"A third of kids in North Carolina are missing more than 10 days of school per year. This is, as compared to other states in the South, not a good number,” said NC DPI Superintendent Catherine Truitt
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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WalletHub released its yearly “Most & Least Educated Cities in America” report this week, and it ranked Durham and Chapel Hill together in the sixth most educated city, while Raleigh-Cary appeared in the eighth position.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State test scores show slight improvement over last year’s scores but still trail prepandemic levels
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Significant achievement gaps persist."
Published: Thursday, July 27th, 2023 @ 12:57 am
By: Daily Wire
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Ian Rowe argues all students could benefit if policymakers paid less attention to racial achievement gaps.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 12:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Free markets lower disparities, while government-controlled systems make things worse
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A month after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a resounding reelection victory and declared that the state is “where woke goes to die,” the state’s second-largest school system signed a contract with an infamous peddler of “woke” partisanship to children.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2023 @ 12:31 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The pandemic has impacted Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) in a variety of ways. Achievement gaps have hardened and learning loss has caused many at-risk groups to fall even farther behind.
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when they graduate and also about the persistence of racial achievement gaps
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Claims that public charter schools encourage segregation grow louder every day.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 6:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen claim to be following the “science and data,” while ignoring the data about the negative consequences of their shutdown orders
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 7:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Durham Public Schools won’t let your children attend class at their buildings for a while.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 @ 11:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Union County teacher recently declared, “This might be rude, but I don’t care about parent child care issues.
Published: Sunday, July 26th, 2020 @ 4:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NC State business professor Dr. Bart Danielsen asks that question in a thoughtful post on his blog, The Green Apples.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2020 @ 10:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leandro v. State of North Carolina casts a long shadow over the public schools in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state funding targets that likely will be outlined in the WestEd report are anybody’s guess.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The pervasiveness of summer vacation in music, film, and TV is indicative of the remarkable role it plays in the life of Americans.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Amid the hoopla surrounding educational inputs in North Carolina, it’s nice to hear some state lawmakers focusing attention on educational outcomes.
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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East Carolina University is participating in a new effort in which 130 public universities and systems will work together to increase college access, close the achievement gap, and award hundreds of thousands more degrees by 2025
Published: Wednesday, November 21st, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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