by admin | Jan 30, 2016 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - NC, Politics - US, Uncategorized
In acknowledgement of National School Choice Week, the following evaluates North Carolina’s public charter school option. What are public charter schools? What is their academic record? Who are their students? Information compiled directly from North Carolina...
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...
