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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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
...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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I found a teacher through NC STEP.
A year ago, I was home watching the 10 o’clock news and saw a story about a program in North Carolina looking for science, technology, engineering and math graduates or mid-career professionals. I had been laid-off from my network engineer position with an international telecommunications company. I had been on several interviews during
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