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Increasing equity in a large, diverse, urban North Carolina district

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina

Cambridge International programs support several schools and feeder programs in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District (CMS) in North Carolina. Cambridge provides a rigorous but flexible curriculum that has enabled them to attract to students and fulfill its equity agenda.

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District profile

  • Large, urban district
  • Charlotte, North Carolina region
  • 148,000+ students from K-12
  • Diverse students who represent 183 countries and speak 197 languages and dialects

Strategies

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools chose Cambridge International to provide a rigorous curriculum that suits a diverse range of students. The flexibility of the curriculum provides the district with an important tool to ensure greater opportunity and equity for students. Deputy Superintendent of Academic Services Dr. Matthew Hayes shared that the Cambridge program “gave kids an option to engage in a high-level curriculum based on their strengths as learners. That was key to us.”

We believe that Cambridge by nature is equitable—in the opportunities that it supplies to students, to the pedagogy which it teaches students –Dr. Hayes, Deputy Superintendent

Professional development

Another key to Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s implementation of the Cambridge program has been robust use of Cambridge professional development. The district prepares new teachers with introductory training before they start teaching Cambridge courses, and supports experienced teachers with extension and enrichment training.

The training that the teachers receive is class A professional development. It's not what we've experienced in some other programs where you have a second- or third-hand party come in and provide the learning—Cambridge trainers are flying in directly from Cambridge itself. –Dr. Hayes

State policies

Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Cambridge program also gets a boost from state policies that reward advanced academics. North Carolina helps to cover advanced exam costs and students who take Cambridge International AS & A Level exams can earn college credit and placement at all North Carolina public colleges and universities. In addition, many institutions across the US offer credit or placement for Cambridge exams, including MIT, all Ivy League institutions, Duke, Washington State University, Columbia, New York University, University of Washington, University of Virginia, Florida State University, and many more. Dr. Hayes appreciates that Cambridge Advanced courses and exams “give our students an opportunity to get ahead of the game while they're still in high school.”

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