CCSS Are Based on Shaky Assumptions Assumes -- without proof-- that Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the best standards. Assumes national standards are the route to ... Keep Reading
Test Results Raise Lots Of Questions – As They Should
Don't panic. That's the message most of us have been hearing all day from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Today DPI released state test scores for the READY ... Keep Reading
Quiz on Education Reform
The Civitas institute has posted a two-part series examining the facts behind education reform efforts in the 2013 legislative session. (Part I here, and Part II here.) Take this ... Keep Reading
The Outlines of Education Reform: Part II
Changes Aim to Improve Teaching, Add Choices In part I of this two-part series on the shape and direction of education reform in North Carolina, we looked behind the education ... Keep Reading
A Sober Look at Education Reform in NC
Republicans slashed the education budget, offered teachers no pay raise and passed vouchers to allow kids to take public school dollars to private schools! We’re witnessing the ... Keep Reading
Common Core Quiz
Now that schools are back in session across North Carolina, there is renewed interest in what students are learning and how they are learning it, especially Common Core. But how ... Keep Reading
Survey Shows NC Teachers Favor Slowing Down Common Core Implementation
A new survey suggests that North Carolina teachers are leery of the implementation of Common Core standards, with nearly two-thirds favoring slowing down or halting the ... Keep Reading
Common Core Demystified, Part II
In Part I of our two-part response to the Department of Public Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and ... Keep Reading
WSSU and Bowman Gray Stadium: A Bad Deal
Last November, Chancellor Donald Reaves of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) joined Nathan Hatch, the President of Wake Forest University, and Susan Pauly, president of Salem ... Keep Reading
DPI Defense of Common Core Is Mystifying – Part I
On June 13 the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released Common Core Demystified. The document was intended to quell what DPI regarded as confusion and stem the growing ... Keep Reading
