Challenge Early College High School in the News
Challenge Early College High School, A MCNC Member School, Wins Prestigious U.S. Blue Ribbon Award
Challenge Early College High School, a MCNC Member school, is a recipient of this year's U.S. Blue Ribbon award for having its students score in the top 10% on Texas State tests. The award is aligned with President Obama's goal of making education the lynchpin in improving the U.S. economy, closing the achievement gap, and making US business competitive in the global market place. The MCNC Early College model provides high school students, especially those underserved by their previous schools, the opportunity to earn both a high school diploma and an associate degree, or up to two years of credit toward a bachelor's degree. Read the full article...
7 Houston-area schools recognized among 2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that 26 schools in Texas were named as 2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools, and seven schools from the Houston-area were included.
These public and private K-12 schools are among the 305 being honored for their overall academic excellence or for their success in closing achievement gaps. Read the full article...
Area schools earn U.S. ‘Blue Ribbon’ honor
Twenty-six Texas schools -- including three in Houston ISD, one in Spring Branch ISD, and a celebrated Houston charter school -- were named 2011 Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education Thursday.
Those honored are Lyons Elementary, Eastwood Academy High School and Challenge Early College High School in HISD; Westchester Academy for International Studies in SBISD; and the YES Prep Southwest Campus. Read the full article...
Early College High Schools Have New Channel to University of Houston
The prospect of earning a college degree can be daunting. The opportunity to earn up to 60 hours of college credit while still in high school provides a significant jump-start.
A $605,000 grant from the Greater Texas Foundation (GTF) will assist graduates of schools designated as Early College High Schools make the transition to the University of Houston ontheir way to completion of their college degrees. Read the full article...
HISD Charter Schools Can Compete with the Best
Conventional wisdom would have you believe that state open-enrollment charter schools are preferable to anything that a local public school district has to offer. But conventional wisdom by its very definition is subject to re-evaluation when all the facts are considered, and in this case, conventional wisdom is wrong. While outstanding state charter schools get a lot of well-deserved attention, they don't have a monopoly on charter school success. In fact, the Houston Independent School District operates its own charter schools, which are every bit as successful as their better-known counterparts.
Read the full editorial by Dr. Terry Grier (Houston Chronicle) ...
CECHS Nominated for 2011 National Blue Ribbon Award
Challenge Early College High School is among only 26 Texas schools nominated for the 2011 Blue Ribbon Schools Award. The list was revealed on December 7, 2010 by Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott. Two other HISD schools, Lyons Elementary and Eastwood Academy, were also nominated. The Blue Ribbon Schools Award honors public and private elementary, middle, and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement, especially among disadvantaged and minority students. Read more ...
CECHS makes Newsweek magazine's America's Best High Schools list
Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Just over 1600 schools—only six percent of all the public schools in the U.S.—made the list. Challenge Early College High School is one of them.
CECHS is awarded the Silver Medal from US News and World Report
Challenge Early College High School is ranked as one of America's Best High Schools by US News and World Report. The America's Best High Schools project is an annual report that identifies the country's top-performing high schools. The goal is to provide a clear, unbiased picture of how well public schools serve all of their students - from the highest achieving to the lowest achieving - in preparing them to demonstrate proficiency in basic skills as well as readiness for college-level work. In receiving the Silver Medal, CECHS ranks in the top 3% of high schools surveyed.
Early-college programs rethink high expectations
It was Michael Rosa’s third day of Spanish at Hostos Community College in New York City, even
though he was just 14. Rosa got into a shouting match with his professor. It happened so often
in those days that he doesn’t remember what this particular fight was about ...
Read the full article (The Hechinger Report)...