by admin | Jan 23, 2016 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics, Politics - NC, Politics - US, Uncategorized
According to official state data, how do public charter students compare to public traditional students on state End-of Grade tests? The NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has released the raw data for each public school’s end-of-grade test results. DPI also...
by admin | Dec 19, 2015 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - NC, Uncategorized
In a fit of legislative hocus-pocus, the same Perdue regime which left NC $3.5 billion in debt and cut funding to schools passed Senate Bill 704[i] in the twilight hours of 100 years of Democrat control in May, 2010. The 553-word SB704, with an ungainly 248-word...
by admin | Jun 21, 2015 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education
The Roger Bacon Academy (RBA) developed and teaches a classical history curriculum for the schools that it manages. I have been asked frequently how the RBA “classical history” curriculum differs from a typical “social studies” curriculum, so I would like to share my...
by admin | Apr 11, 2015 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Reviews, Uncategorized
CURRICULUM CRITIQUE: SCOTT, FORESMAN’S “DISCOVER SCIENCE” [When organizing some digital archives on this rainy Saturday, I came across this paper that I had written in the early 1990’s while taking a course for a lateral entry teaching...
by admin | Nov 7, 2014 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics, Politics - NC, Politics - US, Uncategorized
Abstract When free-enterprise solutions are unleashed in a competitive environment controlled by local parental choice not remote bureaucratic dictates, both students and taxpayers win. A charter school in Southeastern North Carolina has a 15-year time-tested model...
by admin | Sep 14, 2014 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Letters to the Blogger, Reviews, Uncategorized
[The following is the text of a brief address that I gave to an assembly of students at Charter Day School, Leland, NC in 2004. I have repeated it several times since and now share it with you on the anthem’s 200th anniversary.] Our 20th President James...
