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Low-income students and KIPP charter schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Low-income students and KIPP charter schools - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Low-income students and KIPP charter schools

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This was written by Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization, writes about education, equal opportunity and civil rights. This appearedon the foundation’s blog.

By Richard D. Kahlenberg

Over at Think Progress, Matthew Yglesias raises an interesting issue about charter school skeptics. On the one hand, he says, successful charter schools, such as those that are part of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), are accused of skimming the most motivated students. On the other hand, KIPP is also accused of segregating students by race and class with an authoritarian No Excuses approach that is

How to prevent summer reading loss

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This was written by Linda B. Gambrell, Distinguished Professor of Education in the Eugene T. Moore School of Education at Clemson University, and former president of the International Reading Association. This was first published in 2008.

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