KIPP's Underwhelming College Completion Rates Are Even More UnderWhelming
Rupert Murdoch’s education czar, Joel "McChoakumchild" Klein, has a blog post at Valerie Strauss’s page today that touts, once more, a sketchy report published by the KIPP Home Office on KIPPster college graduation rates:
KIPP followed its 8th grade graduates, who were overwhelmingly from poor (85%) and minority (95%) families, and found that, ten years later, 1/3 of them had graduated from college, a rate that was about four times their expected graduation rate and the same as that of white students.
Let me see if I can offer a little context for this claim.
In the SRI study (2008) of five KIPP schools in the Bay Area, researchers found
