Peer review is the short name for a comprehensive teacher professional development process used by schools in the Middle College National Consortium (MCNC). It is also called the Collegial Learning and Support System (CLASS). CLASS is a model in which leadership and
Read More »
All Middle College-Early College (MC-EC) schools are community collaborations between school districts and colleges, parent and business representatives. These institutional collaborations make college attainable, reduce repetition in the curriculum, yield coordinated student services and eliminate the need for remediation. All
Read More »
One of our primary goals is to help teachers make their students good thinkers – by giving them the tools to think and solve problems. We strongly believe that effective teachers must be reflective, willing to carefully examine their practice
Read More »
All Early College-Middle College high schools have as their primary mission the goal of preparing students for college. To achieve this, schools give students rigorous course work and even college classes beginning in the ninth grade.
To support students, the MCNC
Read More »
The Middle College National Consortium has a long and successful history of opening dual enrollment schools. Since 1984 MCNC, and its predecessor organization, have opened 35 dual-enrollment schools on or near college campuses.
Launching any new high school is a
Read More »
Since 2002, the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools and Teaching (NCREST) at Teachers College, Columbia University has provided useful data to MCNC and its member schools. The NCREST Early College Team’s commitment-- and privilege-- has been to support MCNC’s
Read More »
