Tennessee’s pre-k program doesn’t just fail to accomplish its stated goal of improving academic and behavioral outcomes. It actually seems to worsen those outcomes.
North Carolina ranks 12th in the quality of its elementary and secondary schools, and 6th in the nation in the efficiency of the dollars it spends on education.
In reality, teacher pay is inherently differentiated — but in North Carolina, the practice until recently was to differentiate in ways that didn’t serve students well.
Living in Mebane is less expensive than living in Manhattan — so if you don’t properly account for these kinds of disparities, any nationwide comparison of school spending is utterly useless.
Do you believe that the word “test” is figuratively a four-letter word? Politicians on the left and right surely do. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper are both opponents of excessive and duplicative standardized testing. Surveys suggest that parents, teachers, and administrators believe that “overtesting” is a problem. Even members of...
The Obama administration chose an opportune time to release a study that should embarrass backers of the Head Start program.
Throwing money into a statewide grant program appears to have done little to improve North Carolina's dismal dropout numbers.
The most favorable outcome study to date of national board certification of teachers suggests that its benefits are too limited to justify the annual cost to taxpayers.
There are new reports purporting to show that charter schools aren’t delivering the goods. But in addition to technical issues, they suffer a more basic flaw: that of disregarding parental preferences.
It’s the time of year again for end-of-grade and end-of-course test scores to be released. If history repeats itself, educators will be patting themselves on the back. Remember last year? About 94 percent of schools received bonuses for achievement on North Carolina tests.
Gov. Mike Easley misrepresents a study of teacher certification, and generally overlooks shortcomings in education.
