Robinson and Virginia Lt. Gov Winsome Sear have joined forces to pen a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Asian-American students suing Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill.
We are living in an unprecedented time in American history. Never before have we had so many social issues or ills. From gun violence, teen pregnancy, incarceration, drug abuse, and the list goes on and on. As you read this, you are adding problems to the list yourself. If you just stop and think about...
When supposedly neutral news media described Sen. Phil Berger’s proposal as a “ban on affirmative action,” they were either exhibiting their ignorance or willfully misleading their audiences.
Published below are the full and unedited remarks of NC Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, on the threat to critical race theory to American society and its founding principles. Berger offered up the remarks on July 14. Certain Enlightenment Era concepts have defined American culture since our nation’s founding. Sometimes referred to as “classical liberalism,”...
Republicans are gaining slightly in positioning early in the 2022 election cycle, and the leading candidates for U.S. Senate have cause for comfort and concern, all according to a new Civitas poll conducted by the John Locke Foundation. The survey was conducted by Cygnal, May 6–8, 2021, with 600 likely 2022 general election voters. It...
When employers, governments, schools, and other institutions use race or ethnicity to decide who will be hired or served, that is discrimination. Depending on context, it is either flatly illegal or at least fraught with peril.
RALEIGH — In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court took a step toward weakening racial preferences in university admissions, based on policies at the University of Texas. The court did not reverse previous decisions upholding racial preferences, but it said Texas’ policy was unconstitutional. Race can be considered in admissions policies, but there is a point at which such preferences become illegal.
RALEIGH - For more than two decades, cross-national assessments of student academic performance against international standards have shown that U.S. students consistently score below the international average in mathematics, science, and reading compared to their counterparts in 30 industrialized nations.
RALEIGH — Why are Asian-American students motivated to achieve? In 2002, Asian students as a subgroup in North Carolina scored well above the state average on the SAT and had high passage rates on state tests. Based on the belief that Asian children are taught to have greater respect for education and teachers, observers have tried to explain the upward mobility of Asians in the United States in terms of values and work ethic. A new look at what drives the success of these students offers some perspective on the relative success of Asian-American students.
Jon Sanders writes that more than 100 faculty members worked with a handful of students and staff members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to produce a proposed new general education curriculum for the university.
Over a hundred faculty worked with a handful of students and staff members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to produce a proposed new general education curriculum for the university. Their report, "Making Connections: An Initial Proposal to Revise the General Education Curriculum," is a significant step toward the first major overhaul of UNC-CH's general education curriculum since 1980.
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