Teacher's Desk  

Our guest contributor, Delma Blinson, explores the machinations of the Beaufort County Board of Education paradigm, and the effects of State and Federal policy upon the local education process.

There is a scam being run on the people of North Carolina, and the college students specifically. It is the debate about raising tuition in the UNC system next year.
Good academic researchers have known for a long time that the best research is that which shows what you thought you already knew was correct.
While we strongly support the idea of parents being able to choose where to send their child to school we would like to propose for debate another idea.
The UNC system in North Carolina is adapting itself to a roughly 16% budget reduction from the last session of the General Assembly.
I recently wrote a Teacher's Desk piece in which I said that there is little evidence that pre-school programs have much of a lasting effect on the success of students in later years.
I had the opportunity recently to observe the NC Senate Education Committee debate S 423 which, if it passes, will create a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee to study "teacher tenure."
Essentially this bill, if it becomes law, would eliminate the end-of-course tests in US History, Civics & Economics, Algebra II and Physical Science.
Thousands of teachers are on strike as this is being written. And what they are striking for is the biggest threat to America we have ever faced.
A high school in Pennsylvania, McCaskey East High School, is in the news as a result of intentionally segregating students by race and gender.
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