While the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals quickly issued a stay on the OSHA vaccine Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), the Biden administration insisted that companies ignore the stay and proceed with the mandate. No matter what the courts or the Biden administration do, we the people of NC must prevent the implementation of this mandate...
Winston-Salem based Novant Health has suspended more than 300 employees effective this week for not getting a COVID-19 vaccine. According to a press release from the hospital system, those who have not either had one dose of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine or a first dose of Moderna or Pfizer will not be allowed to...
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 latest lefty paranoia about private education stands in direct contradiction to earlier lefty paranoia about private education.
The fight over public school history requirements is tied to a larger effort to place more of the school curriculum in a “contemporary context.”
Have you ever wondered what your child is taught at each grade level? A good place to start is with a review of the North Carolina Standard Course of Studyon the Department of Public Instruction's website. You can use this website to choose a subject and grade level to see which standards are currently used in North Carolina.
RALEIGH — The College Board has decided to stop “flagging” the results of Scholastic Assessment Tests taken with special accommodations in their reports to colleges. Disability advocates generally applaud this move, but removing the asterisk from the scores that appear on student transcripts may compromise the ability of admissions officers to make informed decisions about college applicants, particularly those who through reasons of disability qualify for the special accommodations, such as extra time to take the test.
RALEIGH — The latest changes in test reporting from the College Board are gathering both approval and protest from education policy analysts and test takers. The College Board has decided to stop “flagging” the results of Scholastic Assessment Tests taken with special accommodations in their reports to colleges. Disability advocates generally applaud this move, but some say removing the asterisk from the scores that appear on transcripts compromises the ability of admissions officers to make informed decisions. In North Carolina, the state’s SAT Report 2003 makes no mention of the number or percentage of students taking an SAT test with accommodations.
RALEIGH — A new international study, “Preparing Teachers Around the World,” compared the United States to countries that require high-stakes milestones as part of the teacher preparation and development process. The countries studied all outperformed the United States on eighth-grade science tests in the “Repeat of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study of 1999.” Certification may not be enough to produce a highly qualified teacher. In the United States, schools rely heavily on the certification stage in the teacher-preparation process. That is especially true in North Carolina. To date, North Carolina has the largest percentage of nationally certified teachers in the country.
What is so wrong with the SAT that it needs an overhaul? The SAT is, quite frankly, too objective -- and one of the things it measures objectively is the vast difference in educational preparation between black and white students.
UNC wants $28.5 million and the Community College System $61.5 million in order to make faculty salaries competitive with peer institutions. AND While 41 percent of non-Hispanic whites attend college in the United States, only 22 percent of Hispanic youths go, according to "Education=Success."
