Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, January 21, 2014. As allegations about no-show classes, poor reading test results and calculated efforts to keep athletes academically eligible to play ball continue... Read More
Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife’s... Read More
If state leaders want to improve North Carolina’s education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state. Unfortunately, the... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, January 20, 2014. Warning horns should blast full force around the Obama administration approving a change in federal law to replace most federal inspectors on poultry... Read More
Thom Tillis is walking the same tightrope that Jim Hunt walked in his U.S. Senate race 30 years ago. But Tillis’ balance is even more precarious. Tillis today, like Hunt then, has to appeal to... Read More
Despite all the bumbling and fumbling in his state health agency, Gov. Pat McCrory and his embattled agency secretary, Aldona Wos, may finally be poised for a small policy and political victory. Or... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 20, 2014. A group representing more than 12,500 medical professionals calls the system a "poorly tested, defective and very expensive software product." But... Read More
The execution of an Ohio inmate last week sparked a new round of intense debate about what constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” for prisoners sentenced to death. In the Ohio death chamber... Read More
Governor McCrory, I need your help. I am a teacher educator at UNC-Greensboro, and this semester I have 24 student teachers who are preparing to teach social studies to middle and high schoolers. One... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, January 19, 2014. Many have expressed eloquent comments about the life, death and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But his own voice echoes most strongly... Read More
