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George H.W. Bush: patriot, statesman, president. RIP
When I reflect on the “Greatest Generation,” I’m always amazed at the selflessness which characterized them. Men and women stood tall, rolled up their sleeves — and fought in Europe and the Pacific, saving the world from tyranny. They knew the stakes, they understood their mission in combat or back home, and fought or worked...
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Good grief!
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Better not pout
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Silent Sam to get a fort
Silent Sam’s proposed new home will not be a shrine, as some critics have labeled it, but a fortress built to fend off physical attack.
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Beware claims about ‘unconstitutional’ voter ID
Critics are likely to blur the lines between the concept of photo identification for voters and the law implementing voter ID.
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Back to the future
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Together again
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It’s not about urban versus rural
If you talk a lot about “urban” issues such as the optimal location of light-rail lines or “rural” issues such as the plight of family farms, most of the population will tune you out.
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Climate meltdown
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In high school, the easy ‘A’ is even easier
Call it high-grade high school. When it comes to letter-grade earning power, high-schoolers are rich indeed. Grade inflation is real and it’s inequitable, padding the GPAs of wealthier students faster than others. Such are the findings of a Fordham Institute study that tracked grades in North Carolina public schools for over a decade. Increasingly, A...
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Who decides what public schools teach?
I don’t write much about what happens inside of the classroom simply because there is so little information about it. Content standards adopted by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction outline the sequence, topics, and learning goals for each grade and subject. Curricula and instructional decisions are made on the district, school, and departmental levels....
