Terry Stoops

According to a new Education Trust report, North Carolina’s high poverty districts receive around 11 percent more funding than their wealthy counterparts, making it one of the most progressive funding systems in the nation. This is important because some organizations argue that disparities in local tax revenue for public…

The N.C. State Board of Education will review the 2016-17 Consolidated Data Report this week.  The report includes data related to school crime and violence, short- and long-term suspensions, dropouts, expulsions, alternative learning programs, and corporal punishment. Here are a few highlights directly from the report: The number of…

Although this adds nothing meaninful to the current debate about arming teachers, I thought it was interesting that readers of the North Carolina Journal of Education regularly encountered advertisements for guns. Here is an advertisement from 1899.

SHIFT NC, which seeks to “improve adolescent and young adult sexual health,” will receive an additional $59,400 in federal funds from the N.C. State Board of Education. Combined with the $211,600 contract awarded in 2016, the total received for this contract is $271,000. The description of the amendment to the…

The 2017 Advanced Placement (AP) scores for the class of 2017 were released today. To receive college credit for the course, high school students must score at level 3 of higher on the AP test.   In North Carolina, the percentage of students scoring a 3 or higher continues to…

Dane Huffman, the managing editor of the Triangle Business Journal, is our Shaftesbury Society speaker next Monday.  And Jeffrey Tucker’s “American Culture Has Become Unbearably Toxic” explains that the “only really sensible stuff” worth reading is business news.  Tucker writes, And so, what to read these days by…

The U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), released the annual Digest of Education Statistics report today.  The report includes data up to 2016. Some of the more noteworthy factoids include, The pupil-staff ratio in North Carolina was 8.1 in fall 2014.  It was almost…

Estimating the number of home-school students is more art than science.  While North Carolina’s Division of Non-Public Education takes a systematic approach to counting the number of home schools and students in the state, few other states do. Every year, the A to Z Home’s Cool website publishes…