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
Issues
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
Jack Hawke Was Cheerful Emblem of NC’s Progress
Update: Visitation is Thursday Nov. 7th at Zebulon United Methodist Church from 6 to 9. Memorial services will be Friday, Nov. 8th at Saint Marks United Methodist Church, 4801 ... 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
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Unions Vow to ‘Organize the South’
Last month, union bosses from the AFL-CIO came together at a major convention in Los Angeles to discuss the future of organized labor in the United States. There they unveiled a ... Keep Reading
Teen Courts Help NC Youths
One question confronting North Carolina’s criminal justice system more and more is: What should we do for a 16-or-17-year-old who genuinely makes a mistake, learned a lesson and ... Keep Reading
D.C.’s Misguided Attack on NC Voting Law
It is telling that when Washington decides to attack North Carolina’s new voting reforms, the nation’s top legal authority paints a misleading picture of those laws. Yesterday, ... 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
Does NC give Unemployment Benefits to Prisoners?
Incarcerated prisoners are not entitled to unemployment benefits because they obviously do not meet the condition of being able, available, and actively looking for work. ... Keep Reading
