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Part of the Georgia Dept. of Education, Georgia Standards.org "is a free, public website providing information and resources necessary to help meet the educational needs of students. "

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live. The narrator's relationship

Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and

By Cecelia Cunningham & Susan Restler. Published in Education Week, Nov 2008. The full article is available by subscription, only. Details are available on this web page. The article may also be available through your local library.

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.

Interesting approach by PARCC on through-course assessments for K-12 students with particular significance for HS students as they assess how college ready they are, how they are growing content and skills to analyze, understand the content and apply, and how through-course assessments drive interventions, classroom practice, and support needed for teachers to understand CCSS and help their students to achieve them. Really like logic model on p 17. How does this, should this, could this affect MCNC's epi modeling? I-Lab practicum?

Lesson study is a professional development strategy that developed in Japan. Teachers study a lesson by collaboratively researching a topic and writing a research lesson. 

In innovative urban schools, educators work together to find solutions to the perennial problem of getting struggling students to do homework.

The truth about how to create sustainable conditions for powerful teaching and learning is bred in the bones of schools rather than the brains of researchers or policy-makers. Motivated by this belief, new and restructuring schools that aim to incorporate the CES Common Principles forge connections with other Coalition schools. They rely on each other for support, mutual learning, and perspective.

This is a really great informative NED Talk video about how the teenage brain works. 

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)

Excellent justification for why teachers need to write themselves if they want their students to be better writers and how blogging is a great medium for the writing journey. November 26, 2011, Langwitches Blog

"NACEP Standards are measurable criteria that address quality in concurrent enrollment programs." You can download the most recent standards (2011) from this page.

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.

This site reviews the Senior Project for Bashier Middle College.

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.

Housed at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "At SERVE Center, we believe that education is advanced through knowledge, innovation and action."

SERVE was funded to follow ECHS students in North Carolina into post-secondary.

The DECA Institute was formed with grant funds awarded to the Dayton Early College Academy. The purpose of the grant was to share successful practices for urban students with other Ohio schools. Video and PowerPoint resources from the Institute are available on the website.