Popular Tag: Policy

March 22, 2016

Early college: the power of partnerships

One of the first lessons learned as North Carolina's Early College High School director was the misconception that all early college high schools were the same. Yes, they all focus on a target popu…

June 10, 2015

Interest rising in NC’s innovative high schools

This spring, more than 80 school leaders convened in Raleigh to attend the first Cooperative Innovative High School (CIHS) Technical Assistance Workshop, a joint effort of the NC Department of Public …
The math behind dropout and graduation rates

March 17, 2015

The math behind dropout and graduation rates

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) recently released dropout figures for the state’s public schools in 2013-14. If you’ve ever wondered how the dropout rate is calculated…

March 11, 2015

Learning from the STEM landscape

Last month, Robin Marcus, senior director for research and development here at NC New Schools, and I were invited to Washington, DC, for a day-long meeting with approximately 25 national STEM school l…

January 21, 2015

Calibrating the competency conversation

If I tried to define competency-based education in the fewest words possible, I would say: in a competency-based system, students advance upon mastery. But if you haven’t already, you’ll fi…

March 10, 2014

Getting Education Policy Right in North Carolina

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 repetit…