A form of art, growing and nurturing communities. A block on which to build neighborhoods, relationships. Simple phrases, lacking description but begging for illustration, detailed, contextual description. What’s coming is a common refrain from me, used many times in myriad fashions. Yet it’s always…
One of the most hotly debated bills of the legislative section cleared its final hurdle Wednesday, Sept. 1, and now heads to Gov. Roy Cooper, who could add the measure to his growing list of vetoes. House Bill 324, Ensuring…
Editor’s note: The submissions are from concerned parents and teachers who highlighted student assignments on white privilege and systemic racism and pressured ‘Equity’ training for staff as examples of the promotion of the controversial ideology in public schools. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task…
A new report is shedding light on the academic, social, and mental-health damage caused by school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A McKinsey & Co. report released Tuesday, July 27, examined test scores for 1.6 million elementary school students across 40 states…
If you raft on the river of popular culture, then you can hardly do better than to hire Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart as your guides. One man lived long enough to become the elder statesman of American letters by 1910, and the other died young in 2012, but both…
The exclusive teaching of Critical Race Theory in public school classrooms would be outlawed under a bill making its way through the N.C. Senate. On Wednesday, July 14, the Senate Education Committee took up a proposed committee substitute for House Bill 324, a measure that passed the House…
The N.C. State Board of Education has OK’ed the final round of “unpacking documents” for new controversial social studies standards for K-12 public schools. The vote Thursday, July 8, means social studies teachers now have the full range of guiding documents to implement the revised standards…
At least one local board of education has voted to delay controversial new social studies standards that emphasize race and gender in teaching U.S. history and civics. The Moore County Board of Education voted unanimously June 14 to…
Lei Zhang says he moved from his home country for a reason, and it wasn’t a trivial one. Lei was born in China in 1966. It’s a historically significant year because it marks the beginning of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s notorious Cultural Revolution, a campaign to reinvigorate the…
While state lawmakers wrestle with establishing a biennial budget, a bill previously passed by the General Assembly, and signed into law, takes effect Thursday, July 1: the Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021. The act modifies the implementation of read-to-achieve programs, including changes to reading instruction in North Carolina…
