What is the purpose of education?
Thomas Sowell devotes his latest column to a question that ought to have an obvious answer: Are schools places to provide jobs for teachers or education for students? We pay a lot of lip service to... Read More
NC Spin Articles
How Obamacare fears add to NC unemployment
President Obama has outlined several broad policy goals intended to raise middle class incomes, encourage upward mobility and provide basic services like education and health care. While the goals... Read More
What I Want the Parents of My Students to Know
My refrigerator holds a list. Summer to-dos. Almost 20 items needing attention before school begins. Important things. Things like: Sort through financial records. Write my AP syllabus and book... Read More
The joke’s on liberals
Some readers who get news only from The News & Observer, the Daily Show, MSNBC or the New York Times might think North Carolina has fallen off the planet or been transported back seven centuries or... Read More
North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way
When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged to “bring this state together,” and to focus on bread-and-butter issues amid an ailing economy... Read More
DENR four years behind on Clean Water Act rules
Once an innovative leader in water quality science, North Carolina has fallen behind in meeting federal pollution standards. North Carolina is the only state in its EPA region – which includes... Read More
Where's the compassion?
The Rev. Mike Aiken, letter to Greensboro News and Record, August 12, 2013. In my nearly 40 years of ministry with the poor, I’ve never seen a more desperate time for those in need! If the Great... Read More
North Carolinians Oppose Voter Bill
PPP's newest North Carolina poll, conducted over the weekend, finds that only 39% of voters in the state support the voting/elections law to 50% who are opposed to it. It's true that voter ID on its... Read More
Top NC Republican: State Schools Superintendent ‘Should Stick To Her Own Knitting’
BY ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER, Think Progress blogsite, AUGUST 13, 2013. June Atkinson is the superintendent of public instruction for North Carolina. But when it comes to how the state tests children, the... Read More
A budget of poor choices that threatens the state’s future
Bt Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch and NC SPIN panelist, August 13, 2013. One way to predict how North Carolina will fare in the future is to look at how much lawmakers are willing to continue the... Read More
