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NC's early colleges expanding opportunities
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 | Bill Harrison
Chairman.
NC State Board of
Education
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North Carolina places a high value on making sure that all students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. Gov. Beverly Perdue and the State Board of Education have that goal at the top of their education agenda. Schools across the state are focused as never before on making that happen.
New results indicate that North Carolina is leading the way in expanding opportunities for students to earn significant college credit while still in high school - a sure-fire means to reach the Holy Grail of college and career readiness. More than half the students who graduated from North Carolina's early college high schools in 2010 also finished with an associate's degree - significantly more than their peers nationally and in Texas, which along with North Carolina, leads the nation in the development of the innovative approach to high school.
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Urban Prep founder to speak at NCNSP event
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 | Tim King
President and CEO
Urban Prep
Academies
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Tim King, who launched Urban Prep Academy in Chicago as the nation's first all-male charter school, will be keynote speaker at the North Carolina New Schools Project's Summer Institute, to be held June 21-23 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham.
For the second year in a row, 100 percent of the school's graduates -- all of whom are black males and many from low-income families -- have been admitted to four-year colleges and universities. In March 2010, King was named ABC World News Tonight's "Person of the Week" along with the first graduating class from Urban Prep Academies. King has been recognized by Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton for his work with youth.
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ECHS graduates beating the odds, report says
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 Early college high schools across the nation are beginning to achieve a common, bottom-line goal: helping students under-represented in college graduate well prepared for success in post-secondary education, according to a new report from Jobs for the Future, a Boston education group that leads a national early college campaign.
Unconventional Wisdom, A Profile of the Graduates of Early College High School, finds solid evidence of success among the nearly 6,200 students who graduated from innovative schools with at least one four-year cohort between 2007 and 2009. Nearly three-quarters of them enrolled in college right after graduation, with 44 percent earning a year or more of college credit and 91 percent earning at least some college credit.
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