Opinion
Assessing New Community College Remediation Rates
While the community college remediation rate was 10 percentage points higher the year before, don’t break out the champagne, balloons, and sheet cake just yet.
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Community College Remediation Rates Still Problematic
Roughly half of first-year community college students lack basic English and math skills.
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Community College Remediation Rate Drops, Still Stands at 63 Percent
A policy change will limit North Carolinians' ability to compare future performance to this year's benchmark.
Opinion
High School Graduates: Quantity Over Quality?
Analysts of all political outlooks should be careful about misreading the factors contributing to an 80 percent graduation rate in North Carolina’s public schools.
Opinion
Not-So-Great Rate Debate
North Carolina political partisans need to get out more. Our state isn’t the only one that has experienced rapid improvement in graduation rates.
Opinion
Is a High School Diploma Losing its Value?
We need to ensure students are leaving public schools ready for the modern marketplace or the hallways of higher education.
Opinion
What’s a Diploma Worth?
We need to ensure students are leaving public schools ready for the modern marketplace or the hallways of higher education.
Opinion
The Graduation Message
North Carolina's public school systems need to change the way they focus on improving their graduation rates.
Opinion
The Graduation Message
Public school educators miss the boat with a week of activities focusing on high school graduation.
Opinion
Lindalyn’s Journal
When it comes to test results, educators are increasingly playing fast and loose with the facts. What’s the harm with a little grade inflation, some might say, if students feel good about their performance? Plenty. And the costs – both social and economic – are piling up.
Opinion
State high school exit exams
WASHINGTON, DC — In this, its fifth annual report on state high-school exit exams, the Center for Education Policy delivers no big news but lots of interesting snippets. The exit exam boom is slowing down. Of the schools participating, flexibility is the growing practice.
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Va. Attorney General says universities can’t justify preferences for remediation
Racial and ethnic preferences in admissions and scholarships at Virginia state public universities can no longer be justified on the basis of remedying past discrimination, according to a memorandum from the office of Virginia Attorney General.
