As educators, parents/guardians, and community members, we are compelled to utilize innovative strategies and personalized interventions to help our children overcome the challenges that they face in today’s complex world. Although our collective values and expectations have not changed, our environment sure has changed, and it will require a shift in our mindset to reach […]
As this year’s legislative session has drawn to a close, I am filled with pride and optimism as I reflect on the recent legislative commitment to bolster our agriculture economy and support our farmers. The passage of the Farm Act and the substantial agricultural provisions in the state budget represent a milestone in our commitment […]
Welcome to Duplin Journal! I am pleased that you are reading this very first issue. I hope you like it and I hope you come back for more. Let me say right off the bat, that the goal of those of us that have put this publication together is simple. We want to be the […]
People supporting Hamas are as uninformed and naive as Americans who sought to appease Hitler before World War II and Southern Democrats who embraced KKK leaders after the Civil War. It was clear to anyone who cared to ask that Nazis were going to kill Jews. Winston Churchill tried to tell England, France and the […]
Nearly two decades ago Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act to regulate online gambling. The Act made clear that fantasy sports meeting certain requirements, games of skill, and legal intrastate and intertribal gaming were all excluded. The reason that fantasy sports was excluded from gambling is fairly obvious. Fantasy sports require skill, insight, […]
Literacy is the foundation of learning. If students can’t read well, there’s almost no chance they’re going to succeed in school. That’s why state leaders have been rightly focused on early grade literacy, and rightly alarmed that 68% of North Carolina fourth graders are not proficient in reading. The state’s public universities bear some of […]
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