Category: About time

3-7-16: Between 2011 and 2015, Garner High cut its annual dropout rate from 5.62% to 1.42%, a 75% drop, Matt Dees writes for EdNC. Assistant Principal Joe Bundens: “I don’t think we’re doing anything that other high schools aren’t doing…. We have a lot of good people who care about our kids being successful…. We Read More …

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 …

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.  

2-19-15: So you arrive at the Pearly Gates. Saint Peter is squinting at his ledger. He looks up. “Old Man Thrugbottom, your business competitor. He came by here awhile ago. It says here he paid his people dirt. He fired them when they had to take care of sick kids. He cared about his business, but Read More …