• John Locke Update

    Managing Differences

    posted January 4, 2007
    From the Supreme Court Case that gave the nod to racial preferences in higher education, comes George Leef‘s assessment of the ruling in The Freeman. “When it comes…
  • John Locke Update

    Urbanized

    posted January 4, 2007
    According to the Urban Dictionary, as posted by Jon Sanders on JLF’s Triangle Blog, Right Angles, Durham District Attorney, Mike Nifong, has been turned into a verb. Yes, now…
  • John Locke Update

    Legislative Possibilities

    posted January 4, 2007
    The New Year has brought changes to JLF.  Perhaps the most exciting of these is the addition of Becki Gray.  Heading up a new outreach program for the Foundation –…
  • John Locke Update

    Web-Traffic Data, Successes

    posted January 4, 2007
    In the 4th Quarter of 2006, we had about 325,000 visits to our various sites, yielding about 850,000 page views from roughly 165,000 separate visitors. That’s up 24 percent, 38…
  • John Locke Update

    School Plans

    posted January 4, 2007
    As 2006 comes to a close, education leaders are assessing the performance of schools across the state.  This has proven difficult, as the state’s accountability model, the…
  • John Locke Update

    The Unnecessary

    posted January 4, 2007
    Under this heading, many might add e-spam. It’s annoying, only slightly humorous, and otherwise unneeded.  But wait, maybe that’s only because no one has studied it enough.  I mean, really…

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