Prep Academy Lets High Schoolers Earn Credits
The Stockton [CA] Record, 2006-10-20
Benjamin Holt College Preparatory Academy junior Andrew Ibarra knew going into high school that he would be headed for college some day. He just didn't know he would begin before graduating high school.

Bryan Gets Grant for Charter School
The [TX] Eagle, 2006-10-10
The creation of a new charter school could allow as many as 100 Bryan eighth-graders to transition next fall from middle school to college, trustees learned Monday during their monthly meeting.

Four County High Schools Meet State Expectations
Hickory [TX] Record, 2006-10-07
Six of the 16 high schools in the Catawba Valley region measured by state ABC standards met expectations. . . . Challenger Early College High School was the only school in the region to receive the Honor School of Excellence status.

Selma Early College High School Faring Well on WCCS Campus
The Selma [AL] Times-Journal, 2006-10-01
It's 9:30 a.m. on a Wednesday. Ninth-graders India Gray, Derrick Platt, and a handful of other Selma Early College High School (SECHS) students have just come out of Ms. Ross' English classroom at Wallace Community College Selma.

Students Get a Taste of New School
Newport Beach and Costa Mesa [CA] Daily Pilot, 2006-08-21
Freshmen in Candace Leuthold's Early College High School lab use the scientific method to distinguish between flavors of a popular candy.

O.C.'s 1st Early-College High Opens
The Orange County [CA] Register, 2006-08-15
The first early-college high school in Orange County opens its doors today, giving struggling and underprivileged students a leg up on a college education.

Catching Kids Who Can Make It Before They Fall
Dallas [TX] Morning News, 2006-07-05
[Dallas County Community College District] officials took the first steps to assist at-risk students by joining with the Dallas school district to open the El Centro College Middle College in 1989. This fall, that partnership will expand to include the Early College High School at Mountain View College.

Much Student Financial Aid Going Unused
Deseret [UT] Morning News, 2006-06-19
‘As the cost of a college education continues to rise, many Utah students are overlooking alternatives to shouldering mountains of student debt. . . . Access to a reasonably priced education is shrinking around the United States,’ said Al Church, principal of the Academy of Math, Engineering and Science High School in Cottonwood Heights. ‘Utah has some pretty good deals, but still, the creeping increase is felt by everyone.’

Governor Unveils Agenda to Improve Low-Performing High Schools
Lincoln [NC] Tribune, 2006-06-14
Gov. Easley today announced a comprehensive plan to improve low-performing high schools across the state.

Pairing a Diploma With Associate’s Degree
Washington Post, 2006-06-13
Programs that allow students to earn college credit while in high school sound as if they have been designed for the smartest, most ambitious teens. But that’s not necessarily so.

No Summer Break for First Class at Stanly Early College High School
The Stanly [NC] News & Press, 2006-06-13
Stanly Early College High School welcomed its first class of 46 freshmen and their families to a ‘Get Acquainted Evening’ Thursday at the new school’s home, the campus of Stanly Community College.

Building Intellectual and Social Capital Through Diversity and Innovation
Socialfunds.com, 2006-06-09
Whereas some college education is virtually a requirement for survival in this economy, our inner city and rural schools, try as they do, are losing the battle to prepare and educate the fastest growing segments of our population; meanwhile, our technical workforce is aging, while those in China, India, and other emerging economic powerhouses seem ever younger. . . . That is why, for example, the Call to Action puts a great deal of emphasis on the Early College High School movement, as well as programs that involve middle school students early with college preparation.

Trying to Reinvent the High School
Wilmington [NC] Star, 2006-06-05
UNCW’s re-entry into an experiment that could reinvent high school is welcome news.

Gates Foundation Pours $10.4M into N.C. High School Reform
Triangle [NC] Business Journal, 2006-05-23
North Carolina high school reform efforts will benefit from a $10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. The grant, which follows a $22.6 million Gates Foundation award to UNC announced Monday, will support the North Carolina New Schools Project and the Learn and Earn program.

Teaching Staff, Parents Key to School's Success
Hickory [NC] Daily Record, 2006-05-21
Dr. Eddy Daniel is proud of his first group of students at Challenger High School.

Students Look Back on First Year at Challenger
Hickory [NC] Daily Record, 2006-05-21
Students at Challenger High wrapped up their first year at a brand-new school Friday. It’s been quite a year. This time last year, they had no idea what was in store for them at the area’s only early-college high school, which allows students to get their high school diploma while taking two years of college at the same time.

Off to a Running Start Toward College
Washington Post, 2006-05-18
Flonora Merritt, a 15-year-old District high school sophomore with a 3.9 grade-point average, is already planning for college graduation. . . . Flonora is among 69 students at Friendship Public Charter School’s Collegiate Academy in Northeast Washington who are enrolled in the school’s early college program.

DeKalb and Georgia Perimeter College Partner to Create Early College Academy
GoDeKalb.com, 2006-05-08
DeKalb County School System and Georgia Perimeter College are partners in an initiative that school officials say is designed to help ninth graders not only earn a high school diploma, but also make a successful transition into and through college.

Graduating Early: Slacking Off or a Chance to Get Ahead?
Cleveland [OR] High School Clarion, 2006-05-02
It appears as though each year, more and more students are choosing alternative paths to normal high school graduation. Whether graduating early, home-schooling, or through early college programs, it seems that growing awareness to these options is creating quite a trend.

High School Grads Not Set for College
San Antonio [TX] Express-News, 2006-04-21
The top 10 percent of the class is headed to college. The rest are lucky to pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, the standardized test required for graduation. . . . The University of Texas at San Antonio spent more than $2 million last year on a mix of programs to bridge the gap between high school and college, including a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create early college high schools in the Southwest, East Central and Southside school districts.

Selma Early College Students Making the Grade
Selma Times-Journal, 2006-03-30
The thought of agriculture usually conjures thoughts of open fields and a somewhat easygoing life. But students in Selma High’s Early College High School (SECHS) program know better than that.

Helping Dropouts Break the Cycle of Poverty
National Public Radio, 2006-03-27
If you come from a poor family you are more likely to drop out of high school. And if you drop out and stay out of high school, you are more likely to be poor. In Portland, OR., one program is designed to break this cycle by helping dropouts finish their education.

Crabill Named Woman of the Year
Eureka Reporter, 2006-03-16
Crabill has established two early college high school programs: the Academy of the Redwoods in Eureka, and the Klamath River campus in Klamath. Thanks to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, students earn college credits while earning a high school diploma.

George I. Sanchez Charter High School
civilrights.org, 2006-02-22
In Houston and San Antonio, the two cities with the lowest graduation rates in Texas, the George I. Sanchez Charter High School is successfully improving the educational odds for its communities’ most at risk Latino and African-American youth through a proven combination of intensive academic and social supports.

No-Excuses Education
San Antonio Express-News, 2006-02-15
The odds are stacked against the children here. The tiny border town sandwiched between McAllen and Reynosa, Mexico, is one of the poorest in the country.

The Lessons of Early Colleges
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006-02-10
Last summer a National Governors Association survey of high-school students yielded some surprising results: More than a third of the students surveyed said that high school had been ‘easy,’ and two-thirds said that they would work harder if they felt more challenged in their classes.

Early College High School to Open
KRIS-TV, 2006-01-30
CCISD and Del Mar College have partnered to open a new high school, but it won’t be just another high school.

The College Try: Getting Credit Before You Get There
New York Times, 2006-01-08
Earning college credit in high school is becoming increasingly popular, with half of all juniors and seniors taking a college-level course, according to Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit organization that promotes school reform.

The Gates Effect: The world's biggest private foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places?
Fast Company, 2006-01-01
From the moment you step off the elevator onto the third floor of a former National Cash Register building in Dayton, Ohio, you can tell you’re not in any ordinary public high school. For one thing, Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) looks like, well, an old NCR office.


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