By any measure, Asheville Middle School’s Chris Gable was a teaching star. Gable outperformed all of his colleagues as measured by his students’ test scores, and he had a gift for engaging his... Read More
Didn’t we see this movie before? A billionaire with a big ego and a bigger mouth seizes the stage, runs for President as an independent and ends up electing President Clinton. That was Ross Perot in... Read More
Saturday morning the New York Times ran a front page article about the attack in California and, right next to it, for the first time in 90 years, it ran a front page editorial – calling for more... Read More
It seems that every time there’s a new development in the pay the play prison maintenance scandal in the McCrory Administration, there’s another telling anecdote that doesn’t make the headlines... Read More
PPP's final North Carolina poll of the year finds Pat McCrory and Roy Cooper right where they've been all year- in a toss up. McCrory has the 44/42 advantage this month. Going back to February the... Read More
Most college students do not belong in college. I am not by myself in this assessment. Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson said, “It’s time to drop the college-for-all crusade,” adding... Read More
The North Carolina Association of Educators announced Wednesday that it will back Democratic candidate Roy Cooper for governor in 2016, It's highly unusual for advocacy groups to endorse a candidate... Read More
Legislation that supporters say will significantly reduce federal control of local classrooms and has drawn support from congressional lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum — U.S... Read More
Republican and former Rep. Robert Brawley says he will file this morning to run against Governor Pat McCrory in the March 15 gubernatorial primary. “We need to be more transparent in the way we run... Read More
America’s mass murder crisis is a terrifying phenomenon. It’s gotten to the point at which the supposedly freest country in the world has become, in some horrifically depressing ways, a... Read More
