More Reform Funded Research: KIPP Graduates Persist In College At The Same Rate As Their Mothers
Education Reform propaganda at The74 would try to make you believe that while low income students generally graduate from college at a rate of about 9%, charter school graduates complete college at a rate of 3 to 5 times that.
The main flaw in any comparison between the college graduation rates of charter school graduates to low-income students, in general, is that the charter school students do not represent a random sampling of the general population of low-income students.
In The Alumni, Richard Whitmire says that charter schools that have 5 times the expected college completion rate are ones that only counted their students who persisted until 12th grade in their charter schools. Since for some charter schools, this only represents about 25% of the students who started in that charter school, this even more of a biased sample. But, Whitmire explains, the one network that has the most valid way of doing a fair comparison is the famed KIPP network. Since KIPP counts, in their data, any students who enrolled in KIPP, even if they left soon after starting. And he says that KIPP students, including ones who didn’t persist at KIPP, graduate college 3 times the expected rate.
Reform supporting billionaire John Arnold commissioned Mathematica, a data analysis CONTINUE READING: More Reform Funded Research: KIPP Graduates Persist In College At The Same Rate As Their Mothers | Gary Rubinstein's Blog