At least one local board of education has voted to delay controversial new social studies standards that emphasize race and gender in teaching U.S. history and civics. The Moore County Board of Education voted unanimously June 14 to adopt a resolution, urging the N.C. State Board of Education or lawmakers to delay implementation of the...
Education encompasses more than vocational training. It introduces learners to great swaths of human experience. It broadens perspective. It provides historical context. It builds character. It fires the imagination.
Twelve states now allow student-athletes, some in high school, to start cashing in on their name, image, and likeness. The move comes after the NCAA approved interim rules while it awaits federal legislation on the issue. North Carolina is among the states allowing players to monetize their NIL, and top college programs are solidifying plans...
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the Fordham Institute’s critique of N.C. social studies standards. Learn more here: “Fordham Institute pans North Carolina’s new social studies standards.”
Saying there is a liberal bias in the media is the same as saying that Pugs are the cutest dogs in the world. Most everyone already knows both to be true. The bias is ubiquitous. We see it every day. I am a member of the UNCW Board of Trustees and recently, we learned of...
Lei Zhang says he moved from his home country for a reason, and it wasn’t a trivial one. Lei was born in China in 1966. It’s a historically significant year because it marks the beginning of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s notorious Cultural Revolution, a campaign to reinvigorate the Chinese people’s communist spirit after...
While state lawmakers wrestle with establishing a biennial budget, a bill previously passed by the General Assembly, and signed into law, takes effect Thursday, July 1: the Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021. The act modifies the implementation of read-to-achieve programs, including changes to reading instruction in North Carolina public elementary school classrooms, with the...
A new report from the Fordham Institute argues that North Carolina’s controversial social studies standards flunk the test on history and civics, ranking worst in the Southeast. In an interview with Carolina Journal, N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt emphasized the Fordham report shows the structural weaknesses of the new standards and should throw...
Tim Taylor could scarcely have imagined when he began attending Arapahoe Charter School in 1997, that he would one day come full circle and send his own sons there decades later. Taylor attended Arapahoe Charter — one of the first charters created under a new North Carolina new law — for middle school in the...
North Carolina has the worst history and civics standards in the Southeast. Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi all got “exemplary” or “good” ratings.
The political left wishes to discredit concerns over critical race theory (CRT) being taught in our schools by adverting it is nothing more than “political theater.” Unfortunately, their criticism is misplaced. The reality is that some North Carolina schools are actively pushing CRT doctrines, albeit not calling it by the name. This article will reveal...
