As recently as 2019, North Carolina schools ranked seventh in the country in value-added performance. In 2024, we were 32nd.
A bipartisan Tulane report ranks North Carolina No. 36 of 51 states across 31 quality-of-life measures, with slipping eighth-grade reading scores among the weak spots even as math improves.
The nation's 9-year-olds posted their first significant academic gains since the pandemic, with reading scores back to pre-pandemic levels on the latest NAEP long-term trend assessment.
A new Harvard-Stanford-Dartmouth scorecard ranks North Carolina ninth nationally in math recovery since 2022 but just 22nd in reading, with the average student now reading roughly two-thirds of a grade level behind 2019 despite the state's 2021 science-of-reading law.
A study finds that locking student phones away for the entire school day — a stricter approach than NC's new law — produces sharp reductions in student phone use but few short-term academic or behavioral gains, with benefits that may take years to emerge.
On Monday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a lawsuit with 21 other states, seeking to prevent funding cuts to the National Institute of Health (NIH).
By letting students withhold low test scores (students don’t withhold high scores), UNC is essentially ignoring a sign of poor performance.
We live and work in a mostly free economy — but a spate of year-end stories demonstrated a prominent exception. Triad Business Journal reported that Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, sought permission to build a $249 million hospital in Asheville focused on cancer treatment. Its application was denied in favor of a rival proposal from...
The Research Triangle area is proof that, when done right, remote work can be a net positive.
A federal judge has denied a University of North Carolina tennis player’s request for an injunction blocking the NCAA from enforcing its rules against student-athletes accepting prize money from pro sports competition.
Remote work accounted for only 7% of work days in 2019. By 2023, the ratio was four times higher. The employment rate for disabled workers also shot up.
