Your kids are doing better than their end of year test allows them to be labeled. Both you and your kid need to know this. The deck is stacked against students in demonstrating their success because nearly all standardized educational testing is built around a curve designed to knock kids down rather than lift them... Continue Reading →
Want NC taxpayer $ to start your own ‘school’? No licensed teachers required
According to an NC private school voucher marketer, “All it takes is a fire and health inspection." North Carolina's General Assembly just opened the floodgates on what was already the least regulated private school voucher program in the country. Exposing fraud Public education advocate and school finance expert Kris Nordstrom released research in June 2023... Continue Reading →
Why does the school bell toll? Washington v. Truitt
After fighting the NCGA over 2 years ago to keep a civics course in high school, now we have to fight to preserve the role of public education in a democracy? A social studies teacher should get her up to speed with what happened January 6, 2021 based on what she said January 6, 2022.
Politicians confuse guilt with empathy. What they can learn from a 6-year-old and 1776.
A few years ago when my son was learning about the Civil Rights Movement, he offered his class the recent example of the Black man at Starbucks who was arrested after trying to use the bathroom. He told me about this on our car ride home but I didn’t know where my six-year-old heard about... Continue Reading →
A Letter to Santa from North Carolina’s Public Schoolchildren
https://videopress.com/v/CLACmEU0?preloadContent=metadata Read the full letter here: https://cardinalpine.com/story/a-letter-to-santa-from-ncs-cash-starved-schools/ Find your state legislators here: https://ncleg.gov/About/ContactInfo