Today, the United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a critical free speech case in which the Civitas Institute Center for ... Keep Reading
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Quality Counts 2016: NC Score: C-
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
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
CLF Petitions NC Supreme Court in Religious Liberty Case
Yesterday, the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom filed a Petition for Discretionary Review with the North Carolina Supreme Court in the matter of Breedlove v. Warren. In ... 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
Tell Candidates: Shun Debates Sponsored by Opponents of Voter Photo ID
This year a new state law will protect your ballot by requiring voters to show government-issued, photo identification to cast a ballot. But some groups are still fighting this ... Keep Reading
Political Contributor has Elections Monopoly in North Carolina
Two Charlotte media organizations, the Charlotte Observer and WBTV, ran stories last week about a legislator who appears to have made stealth changes to legislation that would ... Keep Reading
Naughty & Nice List 2015
Here's our list of who we think has been naughty and nice this year... NAUGHTY: Former SEANC head Dana Cope, convicted of stealing more than half a million dollars from the ... 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
