Students at the Wake NC State University STEM Early College High School recently hosted a Computer Science Principles Gallery Walk to showcase their “Games with a Purpose.” Parents, Business Advisory Board members, school administration, NCSU computer science faculty and graduate students as well as NC New Schools were
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Wednesday, sadly, was my last day of school – sort of.
I’m writing a case study of an early college STEM school located on the campus of North Carolina State University. For the past month or so, I’ve spent many hours of many days getting to know the teachers, the staff, the kids, and in general seeing firsthand how this
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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
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