Who Teaches the Best Undergraduate Course in North Carolina?
The Pope Center announces the Spirit of Inquiry Contest.
Articles
Articles
Trustees Still in the Loop
Trustees were nearly eliminated from the appeals process for fired professors.
A Refreshing Twist on Education: Competition
Putting the responsibility for training teachers into hands more practical than the hands of education theorists.
Plain Talk About Free Speech
Winston-Salem’s campus
Teaching Teachers How Not to Teach
Do our schools of education really do good a job of training teachers?
UNC Education Schools: Helping or Hindering Potential Teachers?
This paper from the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy takes a critical look at what is being taught at University of North Carolina teacher education schools. It reveals the overemphasis on so-called “student-centered learning,” also known as “progressivism” and “constructivism.”
“UNC Education Schools: Helping or Hindering Potential Teachers?” by George K. Cunningham, a former professor in educational and counseling psychology at the University of Louisville, concludes that UNC’s education schools have major weaknesses when it comes to teaching teachers.
Good News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Despite declining enrollments, HBCUs produce many of nation’s black scientists.
Jon Sanders’ Top 10 Nuttiest N.C. Campus Events For 2007
Editor’s note: Jon Sanders compiles an annual “Top Ten” list of what he calls the “nuttiest campus events” in North Carolina. This year’s list makes a notable exception, granting the top spot (see below) to something that didn’t happen. What didn’t happen, he says, was so strikingly necessary that its predictable non-occurrence warrants attention.
Onward to this year’s list:
The Top 10 Clarion Calls of 2007!
From politically-indoctrinating professors to innovative educational programs, 2007 had it all.
Deconstructing America by Decree
Assume that a popularly-elected government enacts a law. The law has the backing of an overwhelming majority of the people. Yet government officials decide they don’t like the law and choose to ignore it.
The above describes a clear violation of the single most important foundation of a free society: rule of law. It also describes the actions of many decision makers in our federal and state governments regarding illegal immigration. Federal law clearly states that foreign citizens of any age who enter our country outside of legal channels are to be deported. And yet the powers-that-be find endless logic-defying means to cloud the issue, against the law and the will of the people.
The issue rose to the forefront recently in North Carolina because the community college system decided that illegal aliens should be officially admitted as students, pending a legislative review.