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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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
JWPCI newspaper July 2013
Civitas probes the real motivations for “Moral Mondays,” and why they should be called “Money Mondays.” Civitas Capitol Connection is the monthly newspaper of the Civitas ... Keep Reading
Opposition to Common Core Growing in the States
Thirteen. Certainly not anyone's favorite number. However there is a plus side. It was the number of colonies that united to form this great nation. Thirteen also represents the ... Keep Reading
NC and other Race to Top winners requesting lots of changes
Education Week is reporting that every state recipient of Race to the Top funds but Georgia has requested amendments to its original federal education grant. States received ... Keep Reading
Testing bill raises lots of questions
A bill (SB-114) to remove all state tests but those required by the federal government was passed by the Senate today and will now go to Gov. Perdue's desk for her ... Keep Reading
More reasons to dislike Race to the Top
I have been a frequent critic of Race to the Top (RttT). To find out why, see here, and here. Now it seems I have even more reasons to dislike the federal boondoggle. This ... Keep Reading
NC Receives Education Grant, Bureaucrats Take A Chunk of the Pie
As recently reported, North Carolina won a $300 million federal ‘Race to the Top’ grant to employ education workers across the state, in yet another avatar of federal stimulus ... Keep Reading
Race to the Top Funds Merely Empower Education Establishment
The North Carolina education establishment is giddy about being awarded manna from heaven federal "Race to the Top" funds to "spur classroom innovation." In its proposal seeking ... Keep Reading
Race-to-the-Top and its carnage
I think we're all suppose to be giddy by yesterday's announcement that North Carolina is a finalist in the scecond round for Federal Race to the Top Funds. I"ve spelled out my ... Keep Reading
