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Getting Education Policy Right in North Carolina

Shiny trinkets are shiny.

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a local TV weatherman assigned to cover the annual event to foretell the arrival of spring. Phil becomes inexplicably trapped in the repetition of groundhog day and, regardless of what he does, he seems doomed to live the day over and over. Finally, once resigned to his fate Phil

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by Tony Habit

Confronting the Reality of the Skills Gap

Shiny trinkets are shiny.

Recently a professor at a prestigious NC university lamented that her students lack the skill and confidence to create unique solutions when presented with an assignment in class. She noted that students just want her to tell them the answer or provide a rubric so that the correct answer is clear and course credit guaranteed.

Her comments reminded me of

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