A rural county increases college going rate from 26 percent to 84 percent.
Posted by philhardwick on April 2, 2008
How did such a thing happen? Old-fashioned community involvement in the schools and new-fashioned technology where every kid in 6-12 grades gets a laptop. And investing in a wireless Internet system five years ago did not hurt.
More details at the following Web sites:
http://www.dailyyonder.com/greene-county-nc-wireless-and-way-ahead
http://www.gcsedu.org/home.aspx
