Yesterday, News & Observer education reporter Keung Hui wrote extensively about a Wake County Board of Education discussion of magnet schools and student achievement. He linked to a huge collection…
The News & Observer has an explosive story this morning about an allegation against an Enloe High School teacher who allegedly threatened to pull a college recommendation letter for a…
Let me say that I’ll be shocked and amazed if the CMS Board does anything major to CMS’ magnet programs. A few lightly used offerings might be shuttered or consolidated…
I thought the $500,000 state-of-art Gantt Commission report settled that, oh, a couple years ago. Blow up the current “partial” magnet system — and mindset — and replace it with…
In the July 2007 issue of the journal Urban Education, researchers from North Carolina A&T and Fayetteville State universities examined, the differences in student achievement scores in reading and mathematics…
Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas finds that private, charter, and magnet schools teach civic values as well or better than assigned public schools. From the Education Next article:…
That was fast. Peter Gorman’s run as a change agent at CMS was over faster than a season of Fish Police. First his budget, then his bond, now the promise/threat…
Yesterday my family and I went to the state Geography Bee, one of the qualifying rounds for the National Geographic Bee to be held later this spring. To get to…
On the education battlefield, Lindalyn Kakadelis is attending meetings. Following a decision to remove 6- and 7th-grade programs for next year at Brookstone Schools, Lindalyn spoke to a group of…
Here we go. CMS superintendent Peter Gorman has officially started his job. By hinting that next year’s bond package, probably in the $500 million range, will tilt even more heavily…
Say hello to the Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education. It is, we are being told, the latest group of outsiders trying to flog CMS to change. Except no one in…
The very day the CMS Task Force released its long awaited, $500,000 report on what CMS should do — by far the most in-depth, outside study of CMS, ever —…