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Middle College National Consortium will hold It’s 21st annual Winter Principals’ Leadership Conference from February 14-February 16 at the Newport Beach, California Hyatt Regency. Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, the renowned Stanford University educator, will give the keynote address. In 2006 Professor Darling-Hammond was named one of the nation’s ten most influential people affecting educational policy over the last decade for her work that led to sweeping changes in teaching and teacher education across the U.S.

The Middle College National Consortium (MCNC) held a Jam on Peer Review, the process of improving pedagogy that it has developed over the past three decades. “Crowdsourcing Teacher Evaluation: Let the Voices of Teachers be Heard” attracted dozens of early college high school teachers who shared their experience with Peer Review. School administrators, district personnel and college faculty also participated.

In spite of the fiscal crisis enveloping Buffalo, NY, Middle Early College High School @ Buffalo, a school primarily serving students at the low end of the economic scale, has been saved from the chopping block. Statistics such as a 93% daily attendance rate, 80% college pass rate and 2.4 average college GPA turned the tide in favor of keeping the school open.

Early Colleges are scalable • Early Colleges are an effective model for helping underserved youth to graduate from high school and go on to college • There is no single Early College model but key attributes are shared