The state pension fund posted overall gains of 7.3 percent for the 2017-18 fiscal year just ended June 30, outpacing the assumed rate of return on investments. But earnings have slowed to date for the 2018 calendar year, State Treasurer Dale Folwell reported. “For the first…
More than 2,000 North Carolina elementary teachers have failed the math portion of their licensing exam since the state started using a new test in 2013. The test itself may be the problem. Before the 2013-14 school year, North Carolina required all elementary teachers to…
We’ve had no shortage of goofiness at the General Assembly in the past few weeks. And we’re not just talking about the recently convened short session, which seems to have little purpose other than trying to fix embarrassing mistakes in the election process the same General Assembly…
Dr. Christian Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, discusses themes from his book The Character Gap: How Good Are We? Miller offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
Bob Hamilton is out as administrator of the N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control commission. The reasons for his leaving are unclear, though news of his departure came late last week. Agnes Stevens, deputy director, is acting interim administrator, the ABC said in an email.
We all believe we exhibit good character. Social science research suggests we’re probably wrong. Dr. Christian Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, discusses key themes from the book The Character Gap: How Good Are We? during a presentation Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Access Miller’s…
The N.C. School Boards Association, along with a few school districts, are filing a new complaint Aug. 1 in a longstanding lawsuit over who gets money from civil fines and penalties. NCSBA claims the state has failed to comply with a 2008 court order requiring…
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…
