Celebrating a Homeschooling Milestone
For the second straight year, the number of North Carolina homeschool students is larger than the number who attend private schools.
Teacher unions are the biggest impediment preventing educators from being paid based on their skills and talents.
Media reports and opinion pieces from departing North Carolina teachers will overstate the issues surrounding teacher turnover and the reasons most teachers choose to leave their positions.
Local school boards in large districts offer superintendents such lucrative compensation packages that rural districts often have a tough time hiring and keeping competent or even mediocre leaders.
Pay raises for starting teachers, full funding for new enrollment, and additional money for instructional materials are highlights of the governor's budget proposal.
The generation of Americans born after 1980 have more educational credentials than earlier generations, but they are less prepared than their counterparts internationally to participate in the labor force.
The grades are based on two measures: student achievement and academic growth. These are much more meaningful distinctions for parents, teachers, and administrators than the earlier designations.
Lawmakers have an opportunity to build on recent success in North Carolina.
Far too many high school graduates enter college unprepared to write and perform research on their own.
For decades, Democratic leaders in Raleigh have clung to the flawed notion that no teacher deserves to make more money than any other.
For decades, Democratic leaders in Raleigh have clung to the flawed notion that no teacher deserves to make more money than any other.
North Carolina state government provides 61 percent of public-school revenue, the highest share in the Southeast and eighth-highest nationally.