Public Advocate Bill deBlasio brought his wife, a public school mom, to oppose cuts today. (City Room)
An interview with KIPP’s CEO about graduates’ 33 percent 6-year college graduation rate. (Rick Hess)
A 10-year blogger of education technology issues, Will Richardson, is ending his run. (Weblogg-ed)
The UFT’s blog was named best blog by the New York Labor Communications Council. (Edwize)
A 1943 article about U.S. students’ lack of history knowledge could have been written today. (NPR)
The principal of a D.C. school where cheating is alleged resigned on Friday. (D.C. Schools Insider)
On early childhood, the Obama Administration hasn’t gotten much from Race to the Top. (Sara Mead)
When you actually know American education, The Economist’s coverage can seem shallow. (Flypaper)
Kindergarten is a time of simultaneous separation and clinginess, a father observes. (Insideschools)
With a new indictment, the CityTime scandal is looking like the biggest theft ever. (Running Scared)
Bigger budget woes have derailed President Obama’s bid to reauthorize NCLB. (American Prospect)
Kentucky became the first state today to ask the feds for flexibility in accountability. (Politics K-12)
Preparing for Aug. 29, MATCH Charter School surveys its new students and staff. (Starting an Ed School)
Our condolences to Mayor Bloomberg on the death of his mother, Charlotte, at age 102. (Times)
Smith
It was The Economist’s education coverage that caused me not to renew my subscription.
Lie, Cheat, and Steal
I’ll take CityTime for $700 million, Alex!
Spoon
Are you the next Wayne Ryan? The poster boy principal lauded by Michelle Rhee for test scores resigns because of cheating. How much longer will people tolerate Rhee and Co.’s lies.
Marat
I don’t get it.
Weiner gets caught Twittering his junk and resigns, Bloomberg allows the city to get ripped off for $700 million and is still in office?
bee
Marat, it’s all about the $$$$$$$$$$.
Ellen
KIPP Interview
“RH: Regarding that 33% college complete rate, some
critics have asked, “Is that really four times the comparable cohort,
given that KIPP students have chosen to attend and then have completed
KIPP schools?”
RB: Again, we welcome these tough questions. What the
Mathematica research is showing is, in the case of academic readiness,
our fifth graders are coming in really, really behind. They are coming
in farther behind the students in districts in which these schools are
located. Over time, our research is showing that our schools can make a
big difference. And we’re incredibly proud of our outcomes.”
I went to college…to Hunter College and to University College Dublin, I have no idea what the man is talking about here. Are the kids behind and catching up to their peers in the districts? Is that the answer? Someone please explain this to me…
anonymous
33% of KIPP students graduate college after six years. Roughly 8% of low-income students complete college after six years. Rick Hess points out that some people say it’s not a fair comparison because students who choose KIPP have parents who made a concerted effort to get them there, therefore they’re not really comparable populations. Dave Levin responds that incoming KIPP sixth graders are not only low-income but also perform well below grade level when they arrive. I assume he’d say yes, they’re doing a relatively good job of catching their students up and preparing them for college when considered against other schools serving similar students, but they’re not nearly meeting their own standards for where they want their graduates to be.
You can debate that all you want and there are good points on both sides. I think the most staggering statistic in that article is this one: only 31% of all graduates nationwide complete college in six years. Obviously, many factors play into college persistence, including costs (no doubt contributing to the even worse outcomes among lower-income students) and whether students have other responsibilities (need to work, children of their own). But 31% of all students nationwide complete college in six years. That is a really shocking figure.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.