Public schools in the U.S. are continuing to decline as performance and test scores reach record lows. Many are blaming this phenomenon on a lack of teachers in the classrooms since most of them have been beaten unconscious by students.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 8:08 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Indoctrinating instead of teaching
Published: Sunday, October 16th, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2022 @ 11:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Scores in math and reading declined at the worst level in decades for students during the pandemic, according to a new assessment.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 1:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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Today, state education officials released 2021-22 testing results and graduation rates for all North Carolina public schools.
Published: Friday, September 9th, 2022 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Test scores improved for 3rd through 8th grade across categories during the 2021-2022 school year.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A majority of North Carolina public school students failed to pass end-of-course tests in fall 2020, according to new data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores for the 2018 administration of U.S. history, civics, and geography tests were released in a series of highlight reports today.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 6:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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These have not been good weeks for anyone who watches the landscape of public education.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I know the following plea is probably futile. But I’m going to offer it anyway. Can we please stop making every event into a partisan slugfest?
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 10:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Students attending the ECU Community School achieved growth during the 2018-19 school year, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s annual report card.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Newly released school performance grades show reading scores have remained stagnant despite millions spent on reading interventions.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2019 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, the Department of Justice charged 50 people with involvement in a scheme that allowed rich parents to bribe college and testing officials to smooth the path for their children's admission into top colleges.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 @ 9:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Massachusetts has consistently been at or near the top of the list in reading and math achievement, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
Published: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Thursday, state education officials released 2016-17 accountability results for all North Carolina district and charter schools.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2017 @ 3:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina does generally well according to national education standards, peers say, but it needs to take better advantage of opportunities to improve
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2017 @ 1:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The results are in. More North Carolina students are taking and passing college level advanced placement courses, and students are scoring higher than the national average on the revised SAT exam
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2017 @ 9:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina high school students have bucked a national trend of declining test scores by posting gains on the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) tests, according to a report released today by The College Board.
Published: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 @ 9:21 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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North Carolina schools got a mixed report from the latest independent tests, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are concerns that students who pursue careers in education represent the least capable of those students who pursue college degrees. As Thomas Sowell observed in Inside American Education, "Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the...
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s public schools have just released end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores for the 2013-14 school year.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New 2012 SAT scores, released weeks ago, unleashed a fusillade of commentary about the state of American achievement. Many hammered the decline in reading performance; others celebrated the largest-ever pool of students to take the SAT.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 1:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School accountability comes in two forms. Either parents keep schools accountable by "voting with their feet" or states compel public school districts to administer standardized tests.
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An article by Michael Gerson in the Charlotte Observer (July 22, 2012) states, "In 2000, 5 percent of African-American fourth-graders and 7 percent of their Hispanic peers were assessed proficient in math. . .
Published: Friday, August 17th, 2012 @ 9:50 am
By: Fern Shubert
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Just add a "federal mandate" (aka TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT) to leave EVERY child behind
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2011 @ 3:38 pm
By: Jennifer Paul Collins
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