The good folks at NCRunners.com have crunched all of this year's cross country numbers and came out with top-10 rankings for every championship class in both genders.
In the interest of having you visit NCRunners.com and supporting that site, we won't tell you who is ranked where. But we will list below the area teams that made each ranking and provide links to each of NCRunners' full rankings.
Seventy-two high school girls soccer games are on tap in late March for The Brittany Willis Memorial Scholarship Showcase, held at the J. Burt Gillette Soccer Complex in Wilson.
Among the area teams competing are: Broughton, Millbrook, Wakefield, East Wake, Clayton, North Johnston, East Chapel Hill, Cardinal Gibbons and Franklinton.
The full schedule is below:
The Carolina-12 Conference, which has both 1A and 2A members, splits its post-season basketball tournament by classification.
Northwood's boys were upset by Carrboro in the 2A tournament final, while the Northwood girls defeated host Granville Central.
Roxboro Community's boys thwarted a Cinderalla run by Franklin Academy in the 1A final, while River Mill's girls defeated Franklin Academy in the other final played at Durham's Voyager Academy.
It's the third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys soccer playoffs, meaning each classification is down to just 16 teams total -- 8 in the East brackets.
Supporters of conservative businessman Bob Luddy are demanding equal time following the recent NCAE video alleging he's trying to destroy the public school system.
Below is a tribute video that Luddy's supporters put out in December trumpeting what they call "Luddy Education." It looks at his work with Franklin Academy, St. Thomas More Academy and the Thales Academy schools.
"I felt like that our public school system was not really delivering the academic education and also the character development that our students needed," Luddy says in the video. "Too many of these students drop out over time or they don't receive the level of education they need so based on the way I've always done things in my own life, I decided to do something about it myself."
Schools Founded by Bob Luddy from Randy Luddy on Vimeo.
The Wake County school system should be getting even more competition from a pair of local charter schools.
AS noted in today's North Raleigh News article, Franklin Academy in Wake Forest and Casa Esperanza in North Raleigh got state approval last week for expansion plans. Franklin Academy will now be able to expand by nearly 400 students while Casa Esperanza can now offer seventh- and eighth-grades.
The approval comes as charter schools are taking applications for the 2010-11 school year.
Studying how editorial cartoons can be used to influence societal discussions is a popular lesson in North Carolina high schools (maybe cartoons are part of the statewide curriculum?). My rising sophomore had to draw his own political cartoon last fall as part of his freshman civics class, in fact. As I recall, his cartoon involved Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin and a misfired rifle, but I can't for the life of me remember the punchline. You could probably create your own just imagining his picture.
Matthew Durkin, a World History teacher at Franklin Academy, sent in the two most creative and relevant cartoons from his most recent class. Because we are quite fond of editorial cartoons here at The N&O and want to see this particular form of comment succeed in the coming decades, we're going to post them here. Maybe the next generation will be inspired. The first is by Ashley Kabat, the second by Anna Brown.
The new ABCs report shows some unusual results.
For instance, SPARC Academy made high growth, exceeding expectations on state exams. SPARC is now closed after the State Board of Education refused to renew its charter. The school's lawsuit is moving along in federal court.
Franklin Academy, a charter school with radically different demographics, didn't meet ABCs goals this year. You don't hear so much about it now but charter advocates used to regularly complain about being forced to follow the state's testing standards.
You see similar things in the Wake school system.
For instance, Broughton and Leesville high schools both didn't meet the state's academic expectations. But Fuquay-Varina High made expected growth.
