Skills for prosperity; skills for all graduates
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It's hard to argue with the overarching message in a new high-profile report from Harvard's Graduate School of Education entitled Pathways to Prosperity. As a nation, we need to do a much better job ensuring that all students finish high school with the skills they'll need to succeed, whether that be in college or the workplace. The Harvard report has drawn attention because it challenges the premise that all students should go to college. That goal has been center stage of the nation's education debates for more than a decade. Read more ...
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City of Medicine Academy to be "anchor"
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 Durham's City of Medicine Academy made headlines twice last week. First, the city's Herald-Sun newspaper highlighted the innovative school for being designated as an "anchor" to help lead a developing statewide network of STEM schools with a focus on the health and life sciences.
Then the school's principal, Elizabeth Shearer, landed on the list of eight principals across the state selected as regional principals of the year who are now in the running to win the state title as Wachovia/Wells Fargo Principal of the year.
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Laptops help bring gains to South Granville
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The two small redesigned South Granville high schools joined a 1-to-1 laptop initiative in 2009 as a means to change teaching and learning. Converge, an online magazine that follows educational technology, reports that the effort is helping keep students engaged and learning.
Granville Superintendent Tim Farley told Converge: "It's much less like a school, much more like a community. And that kind of relaxed environment, particularly with kids these days, I think, is very attractive."
Attendance rates have already improved, and school leaders say the infusion of technology is helping build on improvements begun when the small schools were created from the traditional school they replaced.
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