Magnet Schools of America: New and Emerging Award: Arlington International Leadership School

by CKF
June 15th, 2007

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Magnet Schools of AmericaPrincipal: James A. Bailey

Jackson, Tennessee

After becoming a magnet school in 2004, Arlington International Leadership School has accomplished many great things. With the inception of the MSAP grant, Arlington became a school with the Core Knowledge Curriculum as its foundation. Social studies, history, and geography, as well as all other subject areas, are covered by this curriculum developed by the Core Knowledge Foundation. Emphasis is placed on increasing student achievements and opportunities, improving the school setting, training the teachers in the latest curriculum and technology techniques, establishing new parent programs, and marketing the successes and opportunities Arlington has to offer.

Opinion: Scholastic success stories

by CKF
June 7th, 2007

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USA TodayThe principal and teachers at Atlanta’s Capitol View Elementary School know that most people expect their students to fail. Nine of 10 live in poverty. Their parents are not well traveled, their bedrooms lack shelves sagging with books. When they walk to school, they might step around drug paraphernalia.

But expectations change at the schoolhouse door. Inside, the students study classic and modern literature. They have half-hour French lessons pegged to the subjects they are studying. Unlike many inner-city schools that focus solely on reading and math, these students soak up the world, drawing on the “core knowledge” curriculum developed by education professor and author E.D. Hirsch.

And it works: Student test scores outshine those at other Atlanta schools and even some schools in wealthier parts of the state.

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