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Anderson Cooper looks at a new version of the psychology study called the 'Marshmallow Test' and how it can measure a person's grit.

Principal at KIPP Nashville Laura Miguezhowarth was recognized and honored Tuesday as one of the top two principals in the country.

From the beginning, the charter school movement was touted as a proving ground for innovations that could eventually improve traditional public schools. But friction between the two types of schools in California has largely prevented that from happening. Not in San Jose's Franklin-McKinley School District...

Across this country today, thousands-perhaps tens of thousands-of stressed-out teenagers have just completed an age-old rite of passage: they took their SATs. For about 1.6 million high school students, it remains a critical step to getting into college. But now, that test that so many of detested-that test is getting an overhaul. Jane Martinez Dowling is with KIPP Academy, a charter school system.

As Minneapolis public schools struggle to close the achievement gap, one school in north Minneapolis is making tremendous progress. KIPP North Star Academy is a free open enrollment public charter school, which opened in 2008 in downtown Minneapolis and later moved to its current location in north Minneapolis in 2014. Although the school is a public school located in Minneapolis, it is not affiliated with the Minneapolis Public School District. Instead it is governed by the KIPP Minnesota board of directors. KIPP Minnesota was founded in 2006 - two years before the first Minnesota KIPP school was opened - "to address the racial and economic achievement gaps in Twin Cities' public schools."

Nearly every parent on earth operates on the assumption that character matters a lot to the life outcomes of their children. Nearly every government antipoverty program operates on the assumption that it doesn't.