Editorial by News and Observer, December 5, 2013. There’s a little bit of irony here. The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees got a request from the Department of Athletics for a fee increase to help... Read More
North Carolina’s report on teacher turnover for the last school year, released Wednesday, came just after I had read a compelling article in The Atlantic called “Why Do Teachers Quit?” and in... Read More
Two university professors hired by the U.S. Department of Justice to analyze traffic stops by the Alamance County Sheriff's Office say statistical data conclusively shows deputies there are racially... Read More
The Medicaid proposal at the core of an ambitious reform effort has morphed significantly since it was announced in April. Instead of the state bringing in three or four insurance companies or other... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro Daily News, December 5, 2013. Wake County District Court Judge Joy Hamilton brushed aside constitutional claims Wednesday and convicted a dozen Moral Monday demonstrators of... Read More
Peggy Noonan‘s latest Wall Street Journal column explores the notion of President Obama’s apparent disinterest in the functional operation of his signature health care legislation. It’s a... Read More
I don’t quite buy Jason Richwine’s insouciance about the wretched U.S. scores on international education rankings: While the U.S. gets mediocre scores, it also has demographic and socioeconomic... Read More
Yesterday morning, the OECD announced the results of the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the most widely known international comparison of student achievement. The PISA... Read More
North Carolina is among a group of coastal states pressing the Obama administration to end a two-decade moratorium and allow offshore exploration for oil and natural gas. Advocates here are hoping to... Read More
This summer, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory said at an N.C. Chamber summit, “at $7.8 billion, this is the largest K-12 budget in North Carolina’s history.” The line item appropriation for the... Read More
