Waiting for Superman Premieres at LA Film Festival
June 23, 2010 The Huffington Post | Tabby Biddle
“Did anyone tell you this is a documentary?” said Academy-award winning director Davis Guggenheim in his welcome speech to an excited full house at the LA Film Festival…. Read more
KIPP Middle Schools Found to Spur Learning Gains
June 22, 2010 Education Week | Mary Ann Zehr
Students’ gains in mathematics after three years in a charter school run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, are large enough in about half of schools to significantly narrow race- and income-based achievement gaps among students, according to a study of 22 KIPP middle schools nationwide…. Read more
Report finds KIPP students outscore public school peers
June 22, 2010 The Washington Post | Bill Turque
Middle school students in the Knowledge Is Power Program, a charter school network with a major footprint in the District and other cities, significantly outperform their public school peers on reading and math tests, according to a new study… Read more
Charter School Advocates Raise Cap
May 29, 2010 The Wall Street Journal | Barbara Martinez
New York would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate in the state under sweeping legislation passed Friday after a bitter battle between the teachers unions and Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration … Read more
Teachers Facing Weakest Market in Years
May 19, 2010 The New York Times | Winnie Hu
… KIPP, another charter school network with 82 schools nationwide, has received 745 applications since January at its seven schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, compared with 385 last year. … Read more
The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand
May 17, 2010 The New York Times Magazine | Steven Brill
Michael Mulgrew is an affable former Brooklyn vocational-high-school teacher who took over last year as head of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers when his predecessor, Randi Weingarten, moved to Washington to run the national American Federation of Teachers… Read more
Secretary Arne Duncan’s Remarks at the KIPP Annual Dinner
April 30, 2010 Speech delivered in Houston
I have a confession to make tonight. I am getting impatient with talking about “islands” of educational excellence… Read more
Bill Gates talks philanthropy, science, child rearing at Stanford
April 19, 2010 Silicon Valley Mercury News | Lisa Krieger
Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates yearns to return to college. He fulfilled that dream on Monday by speaking — not studying — at Stanford University, offering opinions on topics ranging from career paths to child rearing… Read more
The Case for Saturday School
March 20, 2010 The Wall Street Journal | Chester E. Finn Jr.
…The celebrated Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a network of over 80 charter schools around the country, subjects its middle-schoolers to 60% more instructional time than the typical public school—including eight- to 10-hour days, Saturday morning classes and abbreviated summer breaks… Read more
The Benefits of Yoga at KSA
Local yogis discuss the state of yoga in California as well as the program for students at KIPP Summit Academy. (KIPP coverage begins 12:40 into the recording.)… Listen here
States Compete for Obama School Reform Funds
December 9, 2009 U.S. News & World Report | Kim Clark
Racial desegregation. Mainstreaming of the handicapped. No Child Left Behind. At least three times in the past 60 years, the federal government has radically transformed public schools, with varied results. Here comes another attempt… Read more
Gap Founder, Altruist Championed Charter Schools
October 1, 2009 The Washington Post | Jay Matthews
In 1999, [Scott] Hamilton introduced [the Fishers] to two young teachers, Dave Levin and Mike Feinberg, who had shown achievement gains for impoverished children in Houston and New York City… Read more
Newsmakers: Richard Barth, Chief executive officer, KIPP Foundation
August 21, 2009 Philanthropy News Digest
Earlier this summer, Philanthropy news Digest spoke with Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation, about the success of the KIPP network, the national crisis in education, and why he is optimistic about the future of education in the United States… Read more
Two KIPP Bay Area Schools Students Receive Doris Fisher KIPPster of the Year Award
August 6, 2009 KIPP Bay Area Schools Press
Neither Crystal Lauti nor Mario Barajas had even started high school when they were each awarded $10,000 for their college education earlier this month… Read more
US Charter School Movement gains Traction
June 16, 2009 National Public Radio | Michelle Martin
I’m speaking with Washington Post education writer and author Jay Mathews. He is starting off our education series by giving us a primer on the charter school movement… Listen Here
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