The following post is an excerpt from a case study of Caldwell Early College High School, a partner with NC New Schools. Click here to download the complete case study.
From the moment one enters the school, there is an almost palpable difference in the atmosphere and culture between
...Well, it is truly hard to believe, but we are actually closing in on the end of the school year already. It seems like just yesterday that as the first cadre of STEP interns, we were all meeting for the first time at our program orientation.
We have all accomplished so much since that first meeting last April! Everyone has
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The following column by Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin first appeared in The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on Sunday, March 31, 2013. The authors served as judges for the Pitch Challenge at the Student STEM Symposium earlier in March.
This spring, approximately 91,000 North Carolina students will graduate from high school. More than three-fourths say they plan
...I spent last summer and fall engaged by the DC-based Bipartisan Policy Center to begin the process of finding consensus on some of the tough issues related to the role of education in the nation’s workforce development goals. The BPC was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob
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