It Pays to Consider Reform
Sure, state legislators in Raleigh are more than willing to enact major reforms of lobbying and the legislative process this year. They just want to be paid for it.
Only bureaucrats benefit from limited options in public education.
Capital punishment is a serious public and moral issue. Today‘s topic, however, isn’t so much the debate over executions but instead the tendency to make sweeping and dangerous generalizations.
This week, the Center for Education Policy released a report examining the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) four years after implementation.
Here is a handy list of politically progressive Internet sites worth an occasional read. Most of the sites and blogs are based in North Carolina.
TEMPE, AZ — Recent policy studies have tried to identify "high-flying" schools -- schools that help students reach very high levels of achievement, despite significant disadvantages. A new policy brief by Arizona State University demonstrates some problems.
Despite slavery and overwhelming odds and discrimination, Lunsford Lane found success as an entrepreneur.
We can debate the merits of single-sex classes, but not whether children learn from their role models — adults.
Energy producers and environmentalists are mining the same regulatory fields these days, thanks to fears surrounding global warming, and the 'Baptists and Bootleggers' effect. 'Baptists and Bootleggers' is a familiar phrase to those who examine the incentives and consequent effects of a policy, not just what the policy was intended to do.
If Trudy Brown, head of the North Carolina Board of Electrolysis Examiners, is removed from office for advancing her personal gain, that would be a raw deal — given what such boards actually do.
It’s not a question of if but of when the Speaker of the North Carolina House will leave his post and become just a representative from Mecklenburg.
Even when they win, liberals still have to lose.