Category: Charter Schools

• “Work Hard, Be Nice?”: A Response to KIPP

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  August 3, 2012

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  Charter Schools, KIPP

  In April of 2012, KIPP responded to a press release for Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts, a peer-reviewed paper published in the Berkeley Review of Education (BRE) about African American secondary student attrition from charter schools across the state of Texas. KIPP began their response by…

• Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts

  1–2 minutes

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  July 30, 2012

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  Charter Schools, KIPP

  Vasquez Heilig, J., Williams, A., McNeil, L & Lee, C. (2011). Is choice a panacea? An analysis of black secondary student attrition from KIPP, other private charters and urban districts. Berkeley Review of Education, 2(2), 153-178. Public concern about pervasive inequalities in traditional public schools, combined with growing political, parental, and corporate support, has created the expectation that…