Tag: Knowledge is Power Program

• Frank Convo with KIPP’s Mike Feinberg: Do you call BS?

  13–19 minutes

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  April 25, 2013

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  Charter Schools, KIPP, Parent Trigger, School Finance, School Turnaround, Teach For America

  I had a coffee conversation with Mike Feinberg yesterday. About two weeks ago Mike Feinberg contacted me via email about one of my posts on Cloaking Inequity. He related that he wanted to clarify the conversation about KIPP’s funding. I agreed to meet with him at the Blanton Museum Café at UT-Austin for a coffee…

  

• Top Ten List: Why “choice” demonstrates that money matters

  7–10 minutes

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  April 18, 2013

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  Charter Schools, KIPP, Parent Trigger, School Finance, Vouchers

  Apologize for the CI hiatus. I have six PhD students that want to graduate, which translates to about 1,000 pages dissertation reading these past few days. I recently had a conversation with a conservative Harvard-trained attorney last Saturday in Houston. We were discussing Finland (I blogged about Finland a few weeks ago) and her point…

  

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

  3–4 minutes

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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…