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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - An admissions department e-mail sent from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill congratulated 2,700 prospective freshmen this week on their acceptance to the school. The problem is that none of the students have been admitted. They are on the school's wait list and won't find out until March whether they've made the cut. "We deeply regret this disappointment, which we know is compounded by the stress and anxiety that students experience as a result of the admissions process," Stephen Farmer, the school's director of undergraduate admissions, said in a news release. Farmer said two...

As is often the case, (Jan 8, 2006) the Charlotte Observer carried an interesting article that left out significant facts. Still, I have to give Jack Betts some credit for even admitting the fact that his employer, the Charlotte Observer, along with the Raleigh News and Observer and the Wilmington paper, provided much of the impetus for the racist campaign that led to the "Wilmington Riot" and brought the Democratic Party to power at the end of the 1800's, a power they have held ever since. Since few people have even heard of the "Wilmington Riot," permit me to quickly...

RALEIGH -- The U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Education recently released a report that should hearten parents worried about the safety of their kids in school. " Crime in the nation's schools fell sharply from 1992 to 2002, part of the broad decline in crime in the last decade," according to the November 2004 Bureau of Justice Statistics report. Despite the welcome national trend, school violence in North Carolina has increased over the past year. Recent events in Guilford County and many other communities around the state are creating concern about the safety of children in North...

"Our estimates imply that students in North Carolina do less well in charter schools than they would have done in traditional public schools and that the negative effects of attending a charter school are large," the study's authors wrote.DURHAM, N.C. -- State exam results indicate that most students at North Carolina's charter schools would perform better if they stayed in traditional public schools. The data is compiled in a new study co-authored by a Duke professor. It argues that, on average, students who attend charter schools are being academically harmed. "Our estimates imply that students in North Carolina do less...