Learn More

Community Circle participants are learning about public education, the Achievement Zone and the CMS budget. You can learn more using some of the guides developed for the Circles:

• CMS Achievement Zone Data Guide
• Tracking the Education Dollar

 Web Resources

• MeckEd Events Page (www.mecked.org/UpcomingEvents.asp)
• Alliance for Excellent Education (www.all4ed.org)
• Education Equality Project (www.edequality.org)
• Edutopia (www.edutopia.org)
• Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (www.cms.k12.nc.us)
• Data Dashboard (http://pmd.cms.k12.nc.us/default.aspx)
• North Carolina Department of Instruction (www.dpi.state.nc.us/)
• The Whole Child (http://www.wholechildeducation.org/)
• Great Schools (www.greatschools.net)
• Achieve, Inc. (www.achieve.org)
• The Study Circle Resource Center (www.studycircles.org)
• The Right Question Project (www.rightquestion.org)

 Articles and Reports

• CMS Strategic Plan 2014: Teaching Our Way to the Top
• McKinsey Report - the Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools
• What Can Parents Do?
• Retired Gen. Colin Powell says minority dropout rate is a 'catastrophe'