In “Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards,” Keith Poston of the Public School Forum argues against changing the Common Core math and ... Keep Reading
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NC Voters Back Education Reforms
March 5, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bob Luebke (919) 834-2099 bob.luebke@nccivitas.org RALEIGH – The most recent Civitas Poll shows North Carolina voters ... Keep Reading
Civitas’ Legislative Agenda: Top 5 for 2015
Today marks the opening day of the 2015 legislative session. Being an odd-numbered year, this will be a "long session" (due to its earlier start date) and will include the ... Keep Reading
Waste of the Week: The Jim Hunt Institute
Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize an organization engaged in coordinating with legislators to advance a political agenda. Unfortunately, this has been the case with The ... Keep Reading
Support for Common Core continues to erode
Gallup reported that support for Common Core among public school parents continues to slide. According to poll results released earlier today, parents of U.S. public school ... Keep Reading
Common Core: No Friend of STEM
The Commerce Department estimates that thousands of new jobs will be created in STEM fields in the next few years. STEM – short for Science Technology, ... Keep Reading
Common Core: While You Were Away
Welcome back! I trust everyone had a good summer. We all need breaks and I hope you had a chance to unplug. You say that you were following Common Core until school let out. And ... Keep Reading
Appointments made to common core review commission
A number of appointments have been made to the Academic Standards Review Commission. S.L. 2014-78 created the commission for reviewing Common Core Math and English Standards and ... Keep Reading
But you’ll still be able to choose your own curriculum
That's the limp and tiresome refrain of Common Core supporters to those who think the new standards are taking away teacher creativity as well as the ability of local schools to ... Keep Reading
JWPCI newspaper May 2014
The May 2014 Capitol Connection highlights key issues for General Assembly’s Short Session. ... Keep Reading
