In today’s rapidly changing economy, schools and employers must work together like never before to ensure that students acquire essential skills that will give them good options after high school — whether that means a trade-specific certification, a two-year degree, a four-year degree or beyond.
But equally important is the need to link teachers – not just their students –
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While the concept of early college is certainly not new to the state of North Carolina, there may be lessons to be learned from the implementation of the concept in the Pharr-San Juan – Alamo Independent School District in the state of Texas. Experimenting with moving the early college concept from small, focused learning communities to comprehensive reform
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I recently had the opportunity to travel on an NC New Schools study visit with a team of teachers, administrators and corporate partners to Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school system in McAllen, Texas. Our objective was simple: gather ideas on how to graduate high school students from rural areas with college credit, certificates
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As our group embarked on the trip to south Texas, my goal was to find information to help calibrate where the Beaufort County schools are in relation to early college programming and other similar offerings in non-early college settings. I hoped to gain a frame of reference to help us consider the things that we are doing and
...Last week, I joined with NC New Schools and representatives from school districts across North Carolina on a study visit to model schools in New York City. A lifetime southern belle, I expected to have a “Lean on Me” experience. I was certain that I would get to see a real life Joe Clark in action!
I couldn’t have been
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