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From Common Core To Charter: The Economic Remedy To Nc Education, Hunter B. Winstead
From Common Core To Charter: The Economic Remedy To Nc Education, Hunter B. Winstead
Senior Honors Theses
Although numerous factors contribute to the decline of North Carolina’s economic prosperity, one of the most prevalent is the waste that occurs through the ineffective funding of education. In the last century, this system has become progressively centralized and bureaucratized which restricts the presence of diversity and hinders economic choice. The purest evidence of this movement is demonstrated through the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), an initiative designed to serve as a basis for federal entanglement in education. Proponents of CCSS claimed that the system would accomplish a variety of rigorous educational goals; however, none of …
Founding-Era Translation Of The U.S. Constitution, Christina Mulligan, Michael Douma, Hans Lind, Brian Quinn
Founding-Era Translation Of The U.S. Constitution, Christina Mulligan, Michael Douma, Hans Lind, Brian Quinn
Faculty Scholarship
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Protecting The Watchdog: Using The Freedom Of Information Act To Preference The Press, Erin C. Carroll
Protecting The Watchdog: Using The Freedom Of Information Act To Preference The Press, Erin C. Carroll
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The fourth estate is undergoing dramatic changes. Many newspaper reporters, already surrounded by a growing number of empty desks, are shifting their focus away from costly investigative reporting and towards amassing Twitter followers and writing the perfect “share line.” Newspapers’ budgets can no longer robustly support accountability journalism and pitching fights against the government. And so, while this busier and noisier media environment may have a desirable democratizing effect—more of us are able to participate in analyzing, debating, and perhaps even making the news—it has not succeeded in filling a role that print journalists have traditionally played well—keeping watch on …