Terry Stoops

Update: On June 3, the State Board of Education voted to postpone their vote on the K-5 social studies unpacking documents, crosswalk, strand map, and glossary. Among other matters, members of the board raised concerns about the quality of the glossary. Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt pledged to work…

These teachers do not realize that they have no right to impose their twisted, racialized ideology on students.

Results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment were released today. A nationally representative sample of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade students took the test during the first three months of 2019.  Previously, the NAEP science test was administered in 2015, 2011 (grade 8 only), and…

North Carolina received $51.4 million for the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) fund.  GEER allows governors to direct a portion of federal coronavirus relief funding for targeted initiatives and programs. Yesterday, Gov. Cooper announced his plans for the money. The Governor will invest $44 million of the funds…

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This is why academic transparency legislation is so important. Eventually, the administrators of the North Carolina Teachers United Facebook page removed the post reproduced below.  But the debate continued in a subsequent post and has been just as contentious. For example, one teacher wrote, “Just came here to…

I finally reviewed the recent poll commissioned by the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE).  A progressive firm called brilliant corners Research & Strategies surveyed 804 North Carolinians in early April.             This doesn’t mean that the poll is flawless.  For…

This week, Dr. Danny Benjamin and Dr. Kanecia Zimmerman of the ABC Science Collaborative will appear before the North Carolina State Board of Education to report on the prevalence of COVID-19 in public schools after the passage of The Reopen Our Schools Act of 2021. Here is a summary…