Challenge Early College High School, A MCNC Member School, Wins Prestigious U.S. Blue R... - 0 views
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Adana Collins on 18 Oct 11Another MCNC school wins the U.S. Blue Ribbon Award
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School Bulletin: Greer Middle College Charter High School - Taylors-Wade Hampton, SC Patch - 0 views
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Announcements about students from Greer Middle College Charter High School. Scholarship winners, pageant winners, blood drive, and participation in the MCNC Student Conference in California.
MLE - Moodle > Out-Of-The-Box m-Learning System For Mobile Phones - 0 views
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Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.
Did You Know? video (2008 version) - 0 views
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Researched by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, Jeff Brenman, there are numerous versions of this video on the web. This is the version used for the MCNC principals and directors meeting, Feb 2010.
Edgecombe Community College - News - Cardboard Kayak Project Teaching Real World Skills - 0 views
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MCNC Edgecombe Early College High School students are making boats out of cardboard and learning about business models and investments in the process.
Coalition of Education Groups to Sponsor a JAM on Scaling the Best of Early College | MCNC - 0 views
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A Jam on Scaling Early College on November 2, 2011 from 11am to 7pm.
Teachers' Domain: Learning Through Video Production - 0 views
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resource for MCNC Innovation lab teachers and students?
grist.org: Measuring Along the Ladder of Engagement | Beth's Blog - 0 views
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Website for using social media to create a ladder of engagement to inspire people to take action and change. The question for MCNC is how to create a ladder of learning engagement through the SLI I-Lab.
Ten Key Decisions in Creating Early Colleges: Design Options Based on Research - 0 views
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Written by Elisabeth Barnett, Kristen Bucceri, Claudia Hindo and Jennifer Kim. Published by National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST), October 2011.
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In The What of Proof (data) of Early College Success, this paper was cited, with special mention of page 37 (Decision 10: How Will We Know if We're Succeeding).
Redefining College Readiness - 0 views
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By David T. Conley, prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation by EPIC (Educational Policy Improvement Center), March 2007. Includes four in comprehensive definition of college readinessGoal is to provide a standard,operational definition of college readiness. (PDF)
Beating the Odds: Inside Three Urban Charter Schools - 0 views
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Documentary highlighting the success of three high-performing charter schools in the Boston area.
Solution Tree - 0 views
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Professional Development services aimed at addressing K-12 educational challenges. Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert J. Marzano and Douglas Reeves are a few of the top speakers.
Standards :: National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) - 0 views
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"NACEP Standards are measurable criteria that address quality in concurrent enrollment programs." You can download the most recent standards (2011) from this page.
Stand up for Shakespeare - 0 views
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A program of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) promoting Shakespeare in the schools. The campaign was launched in 2008. On this page, you can download the manifesto, as well as some programs that we created by this campaign.
What is a Senior Project? - 0 views
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This site reviews the Senior Project for Bashier Middle College.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - 0 views
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NAEP administers assessments in the areas of mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history. These assessments are conducted periodically and adhere to a uniform approach using the same set of test booklets across the nation. This site represents the different components of the NAEP assessment. Another website, The Nation's Report Card (nationsreportcard.gov), publishes the results of the assessments.
Dollars for Degrees - 0 views
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A program of the Greater Texas Foundation (GTF). Studying a cohort of 250,000 students who were in 9th grade in 1997, data showed that 75,000 "who graduated high school and enrolled in college left empty-handed." GTF then worked with FSG Social Impact Advisors to look at persistence and completion as they restructured their post-secondary scholarship funding. Two related reports are available on this page.
The Wrong Inequality - 0 views
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Op-Ed by David Brooks in the New York Times, October 31 2011. Brooks finds that the disparity between college grads and non-grads is much more glaring than that of the "1%" who are the focus of the Occupy Wall Street and similar movements. And he finds that this disparity is seen in small cities and towns all over America. Not only does he cite income disparity, but also family structure and things like health risks.