The long-anticipated 2022 math and reading scores from National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) have been released. As expected, the NAEP scores, commonly known as the nation’s report card, were not good.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 8:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long-Term Trend results.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the Education Law Center published "Making the Grade 2019," a report that focuses exclusively on three categories of public school inputs: funding levels, distribution, and effort using data from the 2016-17 school year.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If I told you that North Carolina had one of America's top-ranked systems of public education, there are at least three ways you could respond
Published: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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If you recently read or heard about North Carolina ranking 40th in "education" and found that rank plausible, I thank you for keeping up with the news
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's public schools are currently producing better results than you might think, according to a recent analysis of independent testing data
Published: Saturday, March 12th, 2016 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Every two years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administers rigorous math and reading tests to a representative sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students from each state and Washington, D.C. NAEP occasionally administers assessments covering other subjects, grade-levels...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the U.S. Department of Education, administers U.S. history, geography, and civics assessments once every four years. In 2014, a representative sample of over 29,000 eighth-grade students from across the nation took one of the...
Published: Wednesday, April 29th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new national study concludes that charter schools in North Carolina and other states uniformly outperform traditional public schools, and have a significantly better return on investment for taxpayers.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If state leaders want to improve North Carolina's education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 2:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I was poking around the internet the other day, I came across definitive proof that those folks who tell us that we must spend additional money on education if we are ever going to see any improvements in the outcomes may well be right. Hmmm...
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2013 @ 5:21 am
By: Jim Bispo
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During the 1990s, North Carolina's public schools posted some of the strongest performance gains in the country on independent reading and math tests. Democrats and Republicans took pride in the accomplishment and vied for the credit. Over the past decade, however, the trend has been markedly...
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you ever gotten a cringe-worthy progress report or report card from your child's school? Just about every parent will have this experience at least once. If the grade isn't what you expected or wanted, do you blame the school for sending you the report card? Of course not. Like it or not...
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a world increasingly dominated by technological shorthand, it's hard to imagine why students would need to know the meaning of an unwieldy word like "perspicacity." Yet in the information age, a good vocabulary is more important than ever.
Published: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Between 1996 and 2012, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction authored, field-tested, administered, and analyzed nearly all end-of-grade and end-of-course tests under the ABCs of Public Education accountability program.
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2012 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you follow state politics for any length of time, you hear some version of the following assertion: North Carolina may not rank highly in elementary and secondary education, but we make up for it by having one of the best public university systems in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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