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Proposed Board Splits Charter Advocates
Charter schools have been around in North Carolina for about a decade and a half, and for most of that time, the relationship between charters and traditional public schools has alternated between frosty and hostile. “One of the fundamental reasons for introducing charter schools is to put an element of competition into the education arena [...]
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End-of-grade tests based on new standards
Kristi Harper’s fifth-graders are solving geometric puzzles, working out logic problems and beating top scores in the online game “Calculation Nation.” It’s the day before the Winter Park Elementary School students start taking end-of-grade math, reading and science tests. To Harper’s students, at the top of the elementary school totem pole, end-of-grade tests aren’t anything [...]
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