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by Brandon Garland

Early College Principal: “The Only Constant Is Change”

Shiny trinkets are shiny.

I cannot remember a moment in my life that I did not think that I was going to college.

One of my earliest memories was watching my mother receive her master’s degree from Campbell and being told, “This will be you some day.” I was four.

At age eight, my parents took me to visit Oxford University in England. I vividly

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Getting Education Policy Right in North Carolina

Shiny trinkets are shiny.

In the movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a local TV weatherman assigned to cover the annual event to foretell the arrival of spring. Phil becomes inexplicably trapped in the repetition of groundhog day and, regardless of what he does, he seems doomed to live the day over and over. Finally, once resigned to his fate Phil

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