A response from KIPP
Last week I ran a post by Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation and author of “All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice,” about the KIPP charter schools. He criticized KIPP, arguing that KIPP “skims motivated students and yet is pointed to as a segregation success story.” Here Ryan Hill, executive director of four KIPP charter schools in Newark, N.Y., responds.
By Ryan Hill
Read full article >>The best commencement speechs that never happened
One of the most frequently quoted commencement speeches is the one by Winston Churchill in which he stood up, said, “Never give up, never give up, never give up,” and then sat down.
Except it never happened.
Did you ever hear about the commencement address that Kurt Vonnegut gave at MIT in which he started out by saying, “Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97: Wear sunscreen.”
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