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Front Porch Charlotte

Advocacy resources for educating our children

‘The Common Good’

3-2-15: “If policy makers were to listen to educators – and to students and parents – they would hear that the real crisis in public education is the loss of our collective commitment to the common good. If we continue to make the kinds of choices that steer resources away from our neediest students, the […]

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Get out more

1-22-15: “If you truly believe you could work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it.” – President Obama to Congress, Jan. 20, 2015, via E.J. Dionne

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Educating poor children

1-17-15: “We have to give them quality teachers, small class sizes, up-to-date equipment. But in addition, if we’re serious, we have to do things that overcome the damages of poverty. We have to meet their health needs, their mental health needs, after-school programs, summer programs, parent engagement, early-childhood services. These are the so- called wraparound […]

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Reading too soon hurts?

1-15-15: “Rebecca Marcon found negative effects of overly-directed preschool instruction on later school performance in a study of three different curricula, described as either ‘academically oriented’ or ‘child-initiated.’ By third grade, her group of 343 students — 96% African American with 75% of the children qualifying for subsidized school lunch — displayed few differences in […]

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Seeking answers

1-9-15: “I don’t understand what youth are dealing with in their schools every day. I didn’t realize. My daughter, who’s a senior at Harding, says they see fights on the regular. I mean, growing up, I didn’t understand when she came home and said ‘There was a fight today’ that it happened in front of […]

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Strong families

1-8-15: “Students from first- and second-generation immigrant families are more likely than their peers from non-immigrant families to have strengths such as parents who remain married and households where multiple generations of relatives may live. ‘These children are more likely to live in intact, extended families. That’s a positive for them and one that can […]

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Economic engine

1-3-15: “Now I can make a very powerful case to a parent about the opportunities they want for a child that they love. But I can make a business case to you about the opportunities you want to develop the most powerful economic driver that any community, any state, any nation can imagine – the […]

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Be part of something big

1-1-15: Heads up, adults: Monday begins the next year of young people’s school lives. Are you constructively engaged?

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Resolutions

12-30-14: Tal Gross, a Columbia University assistant professor, making a New Year’s resolution, in the Washington Post, to ban electronics from his classroom: “We are becoming a distracted nation, constantly alt-tabbing to our e-mail and peeking at our phones. We should not be so quick to throw out our pens and pencils.”

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Taking action

12-27-14: Messages left by Empty Stocking Fund donors this year included this: “As an example for the young set by Granna.” Just so.

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Growing up, I learned life lessons on the front porch. Today’s front porch has moved to the Internet. I want this site to focus on children, public education and efforts to ensure that every child becomes a well-educated, mature, motivated adult.

– Arthur Griffin

The 3AM Blog

Observations that may or may not bear up under the light of day, as posted at any time of the day by those involved in this site.

Past, present, or…

1/30/17: Children represent 23% of the present U.S. population and 100% of our collective future.

How will we respond?

1-29-17: “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven’t so far.”

– Ronald Edmonds (May 24, 1935- July 15, 1983)

Opportunities abound

12-28-16: At its Oct. 25 meeting the CMS Board of Education approved a bunch of construction contracts, mostly for heating and air conditioning work. They are listed here in descending order of percentage participation by minority, women and small business enterprises.

  • 34.74% Providence High HVAC Controls
  • 1.5% Harding High chiller
  • 0% Cornelius Elementary chiller
  • 0% J.T. Williams HVAC controls
  • 0% Myers Park High chiller
  • 0% Pawtucket Elementary roof

Is there anything wrong with this picture?

Break the cycle

8-21-15: Who gets the leg up from pre-K programs? In 2013 about half of the children of adults with graduate or professional degrees were enrolled. But only about a quarter of the children of adults with less than a high school education were enrolled. Let’s break the cycle right there! Data from The Condition of Education 2015.

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