A new national report card from a higher education thinktank is sounding some ominous tones for the future of American higher education, and has given North Carolina an "F" for college affordability. That failing grade may seem odd to ...
Here is a brief summary of campaign contributions given by North Carolina Highway Commissioners (including Mr. Conrad Burrell and his family) to Governor Mike Easley’s gubernatorial campaigns: Top Political Donors Dominate List of ...
RALEIGH – Education officials are working to revamp what students are studying in North Carolina's public schools. The N.C. Department of Public Instruction is retooling the entire standard course of study in an effort to make students ...
An independent report on American higher education flunks North Carolina and all but one other state when it comes to affordability -- an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts.
State education leaders claim that North Carolina's testing program, the ABCs of Public Education, is "a major step forward in improving schools." However, during the last 15 years, the state's testing program has done little more than ...
Representatives of the Beach Plan board acknowledged Tuesday that the plan's rates have been too low. But they said North Carolina has benefitted, in jobs and tax revenue, from the coastal development that the plan helped make possible. ...
James B. Hunt Jr., chair of the National Center For Public Policy And Higher Education board of directors and former four-term governor of North Carolina. “States must confront these roadblocks to ensure that the United States can ...
Obituaries from the Greensboro, High Point, Reidsville, Burlington, Asheboro, Winston-Salem, Guilford County, Rockingham County, Randolph County, Forsyth County, Alamance County, North Carolina region.
At a Wednesday meeting, board members from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced they would work towards implementing nine recommendations by a safety task force to reduce the number of head injuries by high ...
Commissioner Tim Pegram, the longest currently-serving county commissioner in North Carolina, asked Brown how the Scott Parker building is different than other buildings [the county owns but are currently unused]. ...
