A new school year is weeks away, leaving ambitious high schoolers to anticipate schedules packed with Advanced Placement classes. Expected to amp up a transcript’s awe factor, AP coursework offers precocious high school students a chance to earn college credit or advanced placements in college classes. It’s no surprise, then, that student…
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman professor of practical ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, discusses key themes from his book Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. Sinnott-Armstrong delivered these remarks during a presentation Wednesday at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh.
Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.” The Twitter account G.H. Davey asked me about it. “Having seen some of you criticism re film incentives in…
Scott Smith, one of the partners who own and run Outer Banks Distilling in Manteo, loves his job. That’s no surprise, after all. He makes rum, and lots of people are buying it. But he and his partners do other things, too. Things…
Big changes are coming to the Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education. State Superintendent Mark Johnson announced July 24 the reorganization of DPI and the creation of a few new positions. Meanwhile, SBE Chairman Bill Cobey said he won’t seek…
Teens are tethered to technology like never before. Almost all have smartphones; many are online constantly. Those are topline findings from a new survey of American teens by the Pew Research Center. This news is no rocketing revelation to those who know and love “iGen,” the name coined by social psychologist Jean Twenge for the…
Debate over the impact of the Opportunity Scholarship Program was renewed recently when N.C. State researchers Anna Egalite, D.T. Stallings, and Stephen Porter published a study that found “large positive impacts associated with voucher usage in North Carolina.” Their working paper is actually the fourth published analysis of the…
Four towns in Mecklenburg County can open and run their own charter schools apart from the local board of education. After lengthy — sometimes heated — debate, House Bill 514 passed 64-53 on Wednesday, June 6, and it’s now law.
North Carolina is the first state to connect all K-12 classrooms to high-speed broadband. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will host a celebration of this achievement Tuesday, May 22, at Graham High School.
I have found the recent demonization of Facebook and its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg fascinating and revelatory. We have discovered that during the 2016 presidential campaign the social media giant played unwitting host to hundreds of Russian bots and fake accounts peddling misinformation about the candidates. It has also attracted bad…
