Opinion
The Battle Against Big Food
Some people would like the government to dictate whether you can splurge at the dessert bar.
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Unequal to the Task
Commentators from the “Two Americas” school of income-inequality populism look out across the economy and see only gloom and doom. Then they fume.
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Lindalyn’s Journal
If you thought the reading wars were over, think again. Igniting the latent feud between the advocates of whole language and phonics is President Bush’s federal program, Reading First.
Opinion
Raise hell, but grasp distinctions first
Writing in the Charlotte Observer on Tuesday, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Walker Lundy urges readers to demand that their newspapers “raise hell.
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Speeding Up The Traffic Report
The North Carolina Board of Transportation seems poised to approve a promising initiative to address traffic congestion in the fast-growing urban regions of the state.
Opinion
What does the research say?
DENVER, CO — The Education Commission of the States (ECS) has released the first stage of a new online tool designed to help policymakers find education research. The initial launch of the database addresses the problem of high school education.
Opinion
Comparing Capital and Queen
Is Mecklenburg government 16 percent more valuable than Wake government? By all accounts, objective and subjective, the answer would be no. Yet that’s how much more it costs.
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No. 935: Bureaucrats’ Survival Tips
Intel founder Gordon Moore coined a phrase in 1965 known as Moore’s Law, which essentially stated that computer power, or speed, doubled about every year.
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No. 936: The Cost of Safe, Legal Labor
Well, at least there’s a town or two in the United States where someone who is here legally will “do the kind of work that Americans just won’t do.” One place is Greeley, Colo., where job seekers lined up to replace the illegal employees who were lost in a raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in December.
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Attack of the Meta-Meaning Mavens
Although some are trying commendably to avoid it, the debacle of the Duke lacrosse case appears to be repeating itself just down I-40 in Greensboro, where allegations of assault are roiling the Guilford College campus.
Opinion
You Can’t Donate Money to the State
Civic-minded citizens have no options, if they feel compelled to do more than their share for N.C. government.
Opinion
Rethinking teacher contracts
WASHINGTON, DC — Efforts to recruit and retain high-performing teachers are expensive. As the percentage of funding for entitlements grows, it's unlikely that larger shares of revenue will be dedicated to education. How will schools find the necessary funding?
