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UNC-Chapel Hill will become the first public university in the state to form a KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) partnership. With this partnership, UNC-CH plans to enroll five qualified KIPP alumni in Gaston County beginning with the 2013-14 school year and address the full financial need of KIPP students and alumni who enroll. >
Southern Methodist University is partnering with KIPP, a charter school company, to attract greater diversity to the university and help KIPP students succeed in college. >
Two national groups will receive $1 million each from the The Mind Trust's charter school incubator to open new charter schools in Indianapolis. Both are well-known national charter school operators — KIPP, a San Francisco-based network, and Rocketship Education, based in San Jose, Calif. >
A nationwide study shows that the ideals behind The Knowledge is Power Program, the city’s only charter school, are having an impact on the way middle schoolers learn. >
Students who attend KIPP charter schools perform better academically than their peers at other schools, yet are more likely to self-report certain negative behaviors, such as lying to parents, according to a study released today by Mathematica Policy Research and commissioned by KIPP. >
Diamond Akiniboboye answers immediately when asked where she will attend college. “I plan to go to Duke University,” she says. She also is quick to say what year she will begin studying there: 2025. Diamond is 6 years old and in kindergarten. Her matter-of-fact approach that college is an expected step is what the charter school in downtown Helena, Ark. — KIPP Delta Public School — constantly preaches. >
Over breakfast once a month, some unlikely guests gather around the same table: the superintendent of the Spring Branch school district and the leaders of the KIPP and YES charter schools. >
The “no-excuses” culture at Democracy Prep could explain why one of its schools had a high attrition rate, according to data obtained by Schoolbook and WNYC. The data only included the network’s oldest middle school, where more than 23 percent of the students left during the 2010-2011 school year. That’s higher than most charters, although some regular district schools in Harlem also have equally high attrition. >
How well kids do in school has less to do with grades than intangibles, like how hard they try when they think no one is watching, according to Paul Tough, whose new book "How Children Succeed" inched up a notch to No. 5 this week on The New York Times best-seller list. >
Mayor Rawlings’s GrowSouth campaign is an ambitious effort to make progress in Southern Dallas. As Executive Director of KIPP Dallas-Fort Worth, I am glad to see Dallas citizens continuing to build a bridge to prosperity for our most underserved neighbors, but I urge the Mayor and everyone involved in GrowSouth not to forget one of the most important planks in this bridge: helping students get college degrees. >
The University of Pennsylvania's partnership with the national network of KIPP charter schools is getting a big financial boost. >
Dr. Andres Alonso will join business leaders and educators in a ribbon-cutting ceremony as KIPP Baltimore celebrates its 10th anniversary with a newly renovated facility in Northwest Baltimore. >
The one-time Texas governor made a rare public appearance, touring the KIPP campus and meeting with Houston education leaders to discuss the importance of recruiting and training top-notch principals. >
On Thursday, September 13, KIPP Massachusetts celebrated the opening of its campus on 90 High Rock Street in Lynn. The building is the new home for both KIPP Academy Lynn Middle School and KIPP Academy Lynn Collegiate High School, which were previously located at 25 Bessom Street and 20 Wheeler Street, respectively. In Lynn, KIPP:MA currently serves 588 students in grades 5-10, and will grow to serve 850 students in grades 5-12 by 2015. >
Entering my 12th year with KIPP, I am continually moved by the many KIPP staff members across the country and their commitment to putting disenfranchised students on the path to college and a better future. >
In an effort to boost college completion rates, national charter organization KIPP and Notre Dame de Namur University have partnered to enroll 15 local high school graduates in the Belmont school in the next few years. >
KIPP Delta College Prep High School is among 19 Arkansas public schools recently designated as 2011 Exemplary Schools by the Arkansas Department of Education. The ADE made the announcement Friday. >
In late June, nearly 100 incoming fifth-graders and other new students converged at KIPP Tulsa, a college-preparatory public middle school in north Tulsa, for five days of summer school. From 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m., they got to know their teachers; bonded with students in their grade, or “teams”; and learned the ins and outs of the distinctive KIPP culture. >
After graduating from Colby College in Maine in the late 1990s, [Shirey] joined Teach for America (TFA) with the hopes of connecting with a Delta community and helping students break down barriers and achieve success. >
An Albany middle school has started a unique partnership with Syracuse University to help lead children in some of the city's most diverse and poorest neighborhoods on a path to college. >
The school improved its grade to a C and just missed a B grade...The performance justifies the opening of a second KIPP school, which starts next month, KIPP Voice Elementary. A group of about 100 kindergartners will be entering the school. >
The Metro School Board first questioned whether KIPP Academy Nashville could improve student performance; now district leaders say they can learn a lot from the charter organization. >
The school with the “laser focus on increasing college graduation rates,” according to a summer newsletter, is now getting the first statistics on whether that focus has paid off. “Yes, we’ve gotten a bunch in,” said Alexis Rosado, the director of the KIPP Academy in Lynn. “The struggle will be to get them to and through in six years.” >
Beginning with a new fifth grade class in 2013, KIPP will open its second middle school in the Whites Creek cluster in North Nashville. KIPP already has a middle school in East Nashville and plans are in place to add a high school once the upcoming renovation of its Highland Heights building is completed. >
San Francisco will have a new high school next year. The school board approved a petition by charter organization KIPP to open a school in or near the city's Bayview neighborhood. Seven KIPP schools have been founded in the Bay Area since 2002. The national charter organization is known for its academic rigor and strict discipline. >
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