Earlier this week Education Week released Quality Counts 2016. ( subscription required) The report gives overall grades and scores to states based on criteria such as chances for ... Keep Reading
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Does America Need Liberal Education More Than Ever?
By Jenna A. Robinson That's what Wesleyan president Michael Roth suggests in his new book, which George Leef reviews here. Leef finds that the argument Roth lays out in defense ... Keep Reading
Just the Facts, Ma’am, on UNC
By Jenna A. Robinson The UNC system likes to boast that it is “one of the strongest and most successful systems of public higher education in the nation.” And in the eyes of ... Keep Reading
Ignore the Doomsayers about UNC’s Spellings
By Jenna A. Robinson In late October, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina announced that Margaret Spellings, Secretary of the Department of Education under ... Keep Reading
Public Schools Undergoing Historic Shift
Part 2 of 2 In Part 1, we looked at Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) enrollment as an indicator of the growing gap between the educational options now available at the ... Keep Reading
What Wake Enrollment Stats Really Mean
Part 1 of 2 Wake County Public Schools are growing at a slower rate than expected, and the reasons for this trend illuminate the growing gap between what the traditional public ... Keep Reading
NC Common Core Commission Takes a Dive
by A.P. Dillon On Friday, December 18th, the North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) was tasked with providing recommendations to replace Common Core ... Keep Reading
NC Common Core Commission Wraps Up 15 Month Investigation
By A.P. Dillon Today is the final meeting of the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC). The ASRC was tasked by General Assembly Senate Bill 812 with investigating Common ... Keep Reading
Five Thoughts from Our Recent Poll Results
How do North Carolinians feel about their schools and how their children are educated? The November Civitas Poll provided plenty of good information about those topics. So what did ... Keep Reading
NCAE Defies Law; What’s Next?
Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next? We at the Civitas Institute and the Center for Law and ... Keep Reading