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Let's do the math on magnet schools

Posted by The Commentators | May 25, 2012 | The Commentators

Today I speak with you as an extremely disheartened FPG parent, but also as a concerned citizen. So much is in the news about budget cuts, teacher layoffs and barebones classrooms for our schools. Yet our experience to keep FPG...

The Chapel Hill 2020 Plan Unveiled: We have seen the future…Or have we?

Posted by The Commentators | May 24, 2012 | The Commentators

At last, the Chapel Hill 2020 Plan has been unveiled, and we have seen the future. Or have we? Over the last year, many, many people have expended a great deal of precious time and effort in attempting to formulate a...

Facing the college challenges: Getting in and paying for it

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 24, 2012 | D.G. Martin

By pricing college out of reach to many American families and loading up students with burdensome debt, is our country breaking the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights? Article 26 of that Declaration provides in part...

Connecting the (Polka) Dots

Posted by Kristin Tucker | May 24, 2012 | The Fashion Plate

Apparently rocking polka dots at work is the trend to beat this season. The Fashion Plate loves this polished pattern look! Anyone who knows my style knows I’m the queen polka-dot-rocking-diva day and night. Polka dots...

Amendment One: All You Need Is Love

Posted by The Commentators | May 22, 2012 | The Commentators

Orange County voted against Amendment One. But it wasn’t enough. Even though a couple of weeks have passed, the pain still lingers. I know. I have friends who effectively have been told by the State of North Carolina they may...

425 years apart, two real estate promoters pick the same spots

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 21, 2012 | D.G. Martin

What does a resort real estate sales brochure have to do with Sir Walter Raleigh and with the Lost Colony that disappeared from North Carolina’s coastland 425 years ago? The colorful brochure that was delivered to my house last...

Fracking, What NPR Left Out

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 21, 2012 | Common Science

As I noted on the Common Science® Twitter feed, NPR is in the middle of a week-long series on hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). It’s good to see them catching up with us. Then in the midst of NPR’s usual high-quality science...

Frank Porter Graham School Should Be Applauded, Not Dismantled

Posted by The Commentators | May 17, 2012 | The Commentators

My name is Carroll Scott, and I am the mom of a 2nd grader at Frank Porter Graham Elementary. My son started the year in 1st grade, but the outstanding teachers and staff at FPG recognized that he was not being challenged and...

Great reviews for Baldwin’s new book; brings back buzz for his first

Posted by D.G. Martin | May 16, 2012 | D.G. Martin

While we were getting ready for out primary elections last week, the people of France elected a new president. Out with Nicolas Sarkozy, in with the Socialist Francois Hollande. Who can explain to us what it means and why we...

Dual Language: More Than One Option

Posted by The Commentators | May 15, 2012 | The Commentators

This is Andrew Davidson and I’m a member of the School Improvement Team at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, where I have a second grader and a rising kindergartener. The revised Dual-Language proposal put before our...

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