Inclusive public schools where all Charlotte-Mecklenburg children reach their potential
3-1-16: We’ve heard this before: Drill-and-kill may give young children decoding practice, but drill-and-kill won’t make them proficient readers because the next step – understanding what they are reading – benefits from life experiences with family at home, and for children without much support at home, requires a much broader educational experience than what drill-and-kill Read More …
Feb. 29, 2016 First published in Educate! March 27, 2003 “Writing for the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, research director Art Rolnick and analyst Rob Grunewald say that one study suggests that public investment in early childhood education yieldsa 12% rate of return – far higher than the return rates for entertainment venues and new Read More …
2-26-16: This website’s new format launched this morning. The conversion should make the content more accessible on today’s variety of screen sizes.
2-22-16: School board member Eric Davis speaking to his District 5 constituents at Myers Park Baptist Church.