Showing posts with label KIPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KIPP. Show all posts
Saturday, October 16, 2010

"No, I said 'self-select for attitude.'"

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One of the many weird aspects of the charter school debate has been the non-exchanges over selection effects . Critics suggest that students...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Waiting for Superman... to get bored and drop you like a bad habit

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From Roger Ebert's review of Waiting for Superman : We have met five of these students, heard from them and their parents, and hope the...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Was I too tough on Seyward Darby?

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We've recently had a huge uptick in viewers. This is great (and I'm tremendously appreciative), but I do have to remind myself most ...

Encouraging/Discouraging words from President Obama

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(Time for another trip into N-Space -- test/retention axis) From the President's NBC interview : What is your message to the leadership...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

More on the SRI KIPP report

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This is a fairly small case of researchers being (deliberately?) obtuse, but it's representative enough to merit a brief post. First loo...
Monday, September 13, 2010

(Acknowledging) Failure Is Not an Option

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Here at OE, we have been spending a lot of time discussing the horrible student attrition rates in Bay area KIPP schools, but when I first c...

If reformers are looking for an indictment of our educational system...

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I'd like to put some finer shadings on Joseph's recent post . I think I speak for most former and current teachers when I say that m...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Make that most children left behind

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In an email, Joseph accused me of burying the lede when I discussed KIPP charter schools in an earlier post. The paragraph in question was t...

The 'I' stands for 'Ironic'

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Check out bullet two. (From the KIPP website ) At KIPP schools: Parents are encouraged to be involved and to contribute; Teachers have the f...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Strange Bedfellows

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(where your intrepid blogger sides with Robert Samuelson, gives Ray Fisman a break and wonders what in the hell happened to Jonathan Chait...