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Sandhills Community College

Sandhills Community College is a public community college in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Sandhills was chartered in 1963 and officially opened October 1, 1965. It was the first comprehensive community college authorized and established as the result of legislation passed by the 1963 General Assembly of North Carolina. It is part of the North Carolina Community College System. Sandhills Community College has about 4,000 students enrolled in college-credit curriculum courses and over 11,000 students who take continuing-education courses annually.

History
Shortly after the passage of legislation establishing Sandhills Community College, H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen, NC, led a group of prominent Moore County, NC, citizens in petitioning the State Board of Education to establish a community college in Moore County. Upon approval of the petition, the citizens of Moore County voted in favor of a $1 million bond issue for capital construction and a tax levy for the maintenance of college facilities.

The first board of trustees meeting occurred on December 4, 1963. On December 27, Raymond Stone was named the first president of the college. Sandhills was chartered in 1963.

The buildings were designed by local architects Hayes-Howell and Associates, and built on 180 acres donated by Mrs. Mary Luman Meyer. The groundbreaking was in November 1964. Legend has it that Stone and a few others were having lunch at The Gray Fox in downtown Pinehurst and Stone admired the courtyard of the restaurant (now Theo's Taverna). He requested courtyards be implemented into the design of the college buildings. The palladium windows were said to be inspired by the Boyd House in downtown Southern Pines.

Sandhills Community College officially opened October 1, 1965, with classes being held in nine different temporary locations in the downtown area of Southern Pines. The administrative offices were above Patches Department Store, which is now The Ice Cream Parlor. The college moved to the current location in September 1966.

John Dempsey assumed the presidency in 1989 and served until December 2022. On July 1, 2023, Alexander “Sandy” Stewart became the college’s third president.

Administration
A board of trustees governs the college and is composed of appointees by the governor, the Moore County Board of Commissioners, and the Moore County Board of Education.

Academics
In addition to the university studies college transfer program, Sandhills Community College offers 34 two-year Associate in Applied Science degrees (AAS). Certain programs offer 2+2 transferable agreements with several four-year institutions. Degrees from Sandhills are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

SandHoke Early College High School
SandHoke Early College High School is a partnership between the Hoke County School System and Sandhills Community College. At the conclusion of the five-year plan of study, graduates receive a high-school diploma from Hoke County schools and an associate of arts degree from Sandhills Community College. "The mission of SandHoke Early College High School is to provide a smaller, more personalized learning community that will prepare all students for a challenging program of study by developing academic rigor, providing relevant coursework, and building student/community relationships." In addition to completing courses required by Hoke County Schools for the high school diploma, students will also complete the required plan of study for the Associate in Arts degree.

Admission to SandHoke Early College High School begins when Hoke County middle school students are in the eighth grade. Students and their parents complete an application form with Hoke County Schools.

Athletics
The college revived its athletic program in 2009. It comprises men's and women's golf teams, a women's volleyball team, and a men's basketball team. Competition is through Region X of the NJCAA. The teams are called the "Flyers".

Notable alumni

 * Terry Anderson, songwriter and musician
 * The Fabulous Knobs, rock band consisting of alumni Terry Anderson, Jack Cornell, David Enloe, and Debra DeMilo
 * Matt Hardy, professional wrestler

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Talk:Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test

Same Test
Our teacher was discussing the Mathematics test today and stated that MOST TESTS ARE NOT THE SAME! Some are but some aren't. 72.188.49.77 (talk) 20:31, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Arbitrary break
Back in high school, my class test-piloted the FCAT exam. However, we still had to pass the High School Competency Test, or HSCT. However I've never heard of the CTBS or Terra Nova exams, as mentioned in the article.

Anyone know if those tests were given statewide? I don't think they were ever given in my district. TrbleClef 02:35, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * HSCT was for high school and Terra Nova and CTBS were mostly for elementary school. Terra Nova, I believe, was also for middle school. Mike H 22:57, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Of these three, only the HSCT was a state mandate. The CTBS, Terra Nova, SAT 9s, were all selected by districts, who could pick whichever test they wanted for self-evaluation.  Additionally, districts could pick the ITBS (Iowas), CAT (California Achievement Test), or others.  Districts routinely (well, I should say, Duval County, anyway, where I taught) routinely would switch tests every five years or so to make it difficult to ascertain long-range trends in student achievement; this worked because most of these tests were just different enough that one could say it was invalid to compare this year's CTBS scores with last year's SAT 9 scores. Unschool 22:17, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

This information just isn't correct. Three through ten? That implies that the tests are given every school year when they're not. The Florida Writes exam is also given in NINTH grade. I'd know; I took it. Mike H 03:27, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * Florida Writes! is given for assessment purposes in 4th, 8th, and 10th grade. See . TrbleClef 06:03, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * That makes no sense, though. I'm almost 100% sure we did not have our regular FCAT exams AND Florida Writes! in the same year. We had our practice exam in eighth grade and the real thing in ninth. Maybe they changed it since I did it (1999, 2000). Mike H 06:58, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not positive, but I think they might have FCAT Writing now too (which may be the same thing.) But when I was in school (c/o 2001) we definitely took the Writes for assessment in 4th, 8th, and 10th.  It may be administered at other times but I believe it only counts towards student success in those grades. TrbleClef 22:13, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * We have FCAT Reading and Math every year from third grade and up. They are now implementing FCAT Science, which I think we are taking this year (I'm an eighth grader, sup) but we didn't take it last year in 7th. FCAT Writes is 4th, 8th, and 10th grade. In fact, i'm taking FCAT Writing tomorrow, which is not only an essay now. There are two parts now: Multiple choice questions and the essay. XHyperYoshimi 23:37, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Fcat Must Go
I think Fcat effect students to past this test in order to graduate from High School. It's very struggling for students to retake fcat over and over again. It really hurting students to graduate and (the school grading rate of reading and math.) Students be dropping out and can't get a diploma cause they can't past the fcat. Also students can't go to college to past the Fcat.

 * Let me guess... you didn't pass? -- Non-user; 2:38 PM 1/11/06
 * Hey, I even passed, gotten a nearperfect score for a few years, and I still think it SUCKS. --'Nother non user.
 * Look, the FCAT is the best thing to ever happen to students in Florida. It interrupts weeks of class and pushes lunchtimes up. The only people that fail it deserve to fail.
 * Yeah, I loved the F-THAT (as nearly everyone in the class called it) for that reason. Nothing like a couple days off of school (thus wasting millions of tax dollars state-wide) to take some multiple-choice tests that don't inidicate shi'ite. 71.106.45.211 04:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Hey, jokers, this is not craiglist's political forum. Take your black and white slogan matches elsewhere, please. --Mark 2000 17:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I think that the FCAT is too easy, actually. The kids who fail or the ones who deserve to. 216.79.193.84 (talk) 15:53, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Try focusing on the FCAT when you are living in a foster home, while being raped by one of your foster parents. Try focusing on the FCAT when you have to become an emancipated minor at the age of 15 so that your family doesn't starve and your brothers and sisters will have clothes to wear. Try focusing on the FCAT when you live in the hood and have developed PTSD from drive-by shootings and the best you can do is stay out of gangs and avoid smoking crack. You don't get to say who "deserves" to fail at anything until you know what a struggle is. There are variables in life that can determine your academic performance that have nothing to do with how smart you actually are. 97.102.3.150 (talk) 13:53, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Logo?
Considering adding the FCAT logo to the page. (It's the coolest logo I've seen on a test in several years.) Any suggestions?

--ElementC 14:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, go ahead, this year's FCAT book design is pretty shiny. 71.0.242.38 03:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Missing Logo
As mentioned above, a logo was added to this article, but now it has been removed. I am not sure why it is gone now, but it couldn't have been for copyright reasons because it was made by the government.

 * It's a state logo, not a federal logo. The government works rule only applies to federal logos. However, I agree that there was no reason for it to be removed, it's fair use. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 01:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I was the one who uploaded the logo but the admin said that the copyright was invalid —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darylquban (talk • contribs) 17:06, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Overzealous admins
Full protection until September? Okay, full protection for a few weeks (especially since this is FCAT season) I can see. Partial protection until September? Maaaaaaaybe. But full protection for six months is irresponsible. On an historically static topic like Roman Law or Chinese Emperors I could understand it, but this is the worst use of the protection power I have ever seen in my nearly six months on Wikipedia. 68.17.232.72 (talk) 18:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

 * People get theirs scores and get pissed. It's fully reasonable. Therequiembellishere (talk) 23:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * And I don't know what you mean since it expires in one month. Therequiembellishere (talk) 23:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * If you look here, you will see that when that comment was written, all indications were that it expired in September. It's been changed since.  And no, that would not be reasonable.  This isn't an article about the President, for pete's sake. 68.17.232.72 (talk) 23:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Exactly, so what's the big deal? Therequiembellishere (talk) 03:28, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

 * And again, the indication were for April. Darylquban didn't protect the page. Therequiembellishere (talk) 03:29, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

About the test
Okay, the article explains how the test is required for graduation from HS and who is required to pass the FCAT, but it would probably make the article a lot more encyclopedic if this article were to provide more explaination of the sections, and better expain the scoring of the test, other than the fact that part of it is automaticly scored and part of it is manually scored. It may even improve the article to explain the strict policies of the handling of the test and how someone's test can easily be invalidated. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 01:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

 * On that level I don’t really know too much because I decided not to go into education, but this much I recall from various classes and teaching. Some of this is a few years old though (that is, from 2005), so you might want to verify it to see if any of it’s changed, especially about the school grades
 * There are fairly well defined rubrics for grading the hand scored portions
 * For the longer problems only what’s inside the box are counted: even if there is the correct work outside the box, it’s worth nothing.
 * School grades come from a 600 point scale, with numerical divisions for the letters
 * 300 of those points come from how well students achieve
 * 300 of those points come from how students improve (thus meaning if nobody improves, they get 0 points here and are at most a D school, if they get all 300 achievement points)
 * If the bottom X% (25%?) doesn’t show adequate improvement, the grade is automatically lowered one letter. GromXXVII (talk) 12:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Passing
I noticed several edits recently about what it means to “pass” the FCAT. I thought this reference (pdf) for grade 10 might be useful. http://fcat.fldoe.org/pdf/fcatpass.pdf. As for grade 3, I beleive level 2 or higher is needed – although exemptions can be made. GromXXVII (talk) 11:00, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The 10th grade situation is difficult to clarify in the article. They still list 10th grade scores as being a "1", "2", "5" or whatever, but that's not what determines passage.  A "1" is a guaranteed failure and a "3" is a guaranteed pass, but a "2" can be a pass or fail, depending on the student's "scale score", which is not always the same from year to year.  It's almost pointless to try to explain in the article without a graph (which would either violate WP:OR or WP:COPY, if you used theirs.  Unschool (talk) 03:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Alterations to the FCAT test due to 2008 Budget cuts by the Florida Legislature:

1. The Florida NRT test was eliminated.

2. The Florida Writing + exam did not require passage with a 3 or better until 2012.

3. The Summer retake of the FCAT was eliminated. The reduces the number of opportunities to retake the test after Grade 10. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.79 (talk) 22:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Yeah -- the article is sketchy about FCAT grades -- are these what you're calling Levels? -- can you get a "Level" zero? what is the highest grade(s) you can achieve? And, lastly, what are the passing grades?

And what is the point of all this extraneous SAT/ACT stuff? I would love to see some graphs of the ranges of achievement over the years, across grades. The FL DOE sites were impenetrable in this regard.70.197.182.182 (talk) 23:47, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

What I know: Clear as mud, eh?
 * No, 0 is not possible; Level 1 is the lowest for all tests.
 * 5 is the highest for all tests, except for the 4th grade writing test, for which a 6 is the highest possible.
 * Level 3 represents "grade level performance" for all tests, but "passing" (as far as the state is concerned; some counties have their own standards) is only relevant at grades 3 (reading only) and 10 (language arts and math). In 3rd grade, "passing" on the reading exam is now a "2", which is lowered from the original requirement of "3".  For 10th grade, it is far more complicated.  Making a Level 3 will guarantee that you pass, but you can actually pass with a "high" Level 2.

FCAT Explorer
I merged this article here, which avoids duplication   DGG ( talk ) 05:31, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

FCAT's future
Hasn't the test been ended, effective 2015 and after? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.92.102 (talk) 16:46, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

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But what is it?
There was a 2008 comment that asked the same question. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, and I as European just want to know what it tested- what form of assessment is used- so I can compare. I am sure that it would be easy for a Florida teacher to give a synopsis of the requirements.--ClemRutter (talk) 11:35, 30 December 2018 (UTC)


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Arviat

Arviat (, syllabics: ᐊᕐᕕᐊᑦ; formerly called Eskimo Point until 1 June 1989) is a predominantly Inuit hamlet located on the western shore of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. Arviat ("place of the bowhead whale") is derived from the Inuktitut word arviq meaning "Bowhead whale". Earlier in history, its name was Tikirajualaaq ("a little long point"), and Ittaliurvik, ("a place where the people make tents").

Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Arviat had a population of 2,864 living in 632 of its 694 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 2,657. With a land area of 126.14 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Community
Arviat is the southernmost community on the Nunavut mainland and is close to the geographical centre of Canada. In Arviat, Inuktitut and English are primarily spoken, having the third largest population in Nunavut, behind Rankin Inlet and Iqaluit. From the 2011 Canadian census to the 2016 Canadian census there was a population increase of 14.6%. The mayor of Arviat is Joe Savikataaq (Jr.).

The community became a hamlet under the name Eskimo Point (name first appeared on maps in 1738) in 1977.

Cargo and passenger air service is provided by Calm Air, Canadian North and Nolinor Aviation (charter only) out of Arviat Airport. Destinations include other settlements in Nunavut and Manitoba, including Winnipeg.

Hunting and fishing are very active in the community; they are the primary source of sustenance. Four locally operated stores - Padlei Co-op, Northern Stores, Arctic Connection and Eskimo Point Lumber Supply - carry a wide range of products.

To the south, the town of Churchill, Manitoba is accessible by boat (summer and fall only), snowmobile and Bombardier from Arviat and is often travelled to for supplies.

Arviat is well known around the Arctic for its artistic qualities. It is a thriving community with many talented musicians: Susan Aglukark, a well known musician; Simon "Johnny Cash of the North" Sigyariaq; the band Uniaqtuq, with Arsene, Pelagie and Mary Angalik; the Arviat Band, with John and Billy Kuksuk, Paul Kattau and others; the Irksuk band, played by Paul Irksuk and sons. All have had CDs recorded commercially.

Many types of wildlife are abundant. Within the vicinity of Arviat, polar bears, millions of migratory birds, beluga whales, and caribou are often spotted.

The only access is by air and snowmobile, but the Nunavut government and the federal Senate member for Nunavut, Dennis Patterson, are investigating the possibility of a highway from Thompson, Manitoba, Lynn Lake, or Gillam, Manitoba, or an extension of the Hudson Bay Railway from Churchill, Manitoba to Rankin Inlet via Arviat. Similar to other Arctic coast communities there is an annual sealift but it is not available to passengers.

Arviat was originally inhabited by the Paallirmiut, a coastal/inland Inuit band. In 1957, dying of starvation, the last remaining Ihalmiut, another Caribou Inuit band, were relocated to Arviat by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Though there are differences between the two bands, they recognize a need to work together in order to benefit the community.

In 1993, Mark Kalluak published a historical essay on soapstone carving in Arviat, entitled ''Pelts to Stone. A History of Arts and Crafts Production in Arviat''.

Arviat was featured in Dancing Towards the Light, a 2017 CBC News short film and article telling the story of the hamlet's annual dance competition.

The community is home to Arviaqpaluk Radio, a community radio station which operates under an exemption from CRTC licensing for low-power broadcasters.

Politics
The community is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut by John Main in the electoral district of Arviat North-Whale Cove, and Joe Savikataaq in Arviat South. Savikataaq was Premier of Nunavut from 2018 to 2021.

Savikataaq's son, Joe Savikataaq Jr., became mayor of the community in March 2020, following the death in office of Bob Leonard.

Recreation
The Hudson Bay Quest sled-dog race was run from Churchill to Arviat for the first time in 2004.

Internet
The community has been served by the Qiniq network since 2005. Qiniq is a fixed wireless service to homes and businesses, connecting to the outside world via a satellite backbone. The Qiniq network is designed and operated by SSI Micro. In 2017, the network was upgraded to 4G LTE technology, and 2G-GSM for mobile voice.

Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification Arviat has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc). However, using Nordenskjöld's alternate formula for distinguishing Arctic from subarctic climates, it has a polar climate (Köppen ET); as expected from this, it is north of the Arctic tree line. Spring is slow to warm up, with June being cooler than September and May cooler than October. With a yearly mean of -9.3 C it is the third-warmest in Nunavut and the maximum of 33.9 C recorded on 22 July 1973 is second only to that of Kugluktuk. Arviat has a yearly rainfall of 174.4 mm, the fourth-wettest in Nunavut, but only 112.4 cm of snow, the third-least. Temperatures above freezing have never been recorded between 18 November and 17 March, inclusive; conversely, accumulating snow has never been recorded in July or August.

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