A Leap of Faith

Tennenbaum, that was lately renamed to honor a huge donation by the creator of a LA hedge account, is part of Alliance University Ready Public Classes, a charter management business with 14 high classes and 6 middle academic institutions throughout LA. Its CEO is Dr. Judy Ivie Burton, previous area...

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The Promise of Personalized Learning

Patty Berganza is a chatty 16-year-old with a mouthful of brackets, a dense mane of dark-colored scalp, and a lightning-fast brain. The very last of these still left her so bored at her prior Los Angeles senior high school that she racked up more than 49 unexcused absences in a single year and attained...

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School Spirit, KIPP-Style

At celebration, friday afternoons presented at McDonogh 15 most, students played video games devised by personnel for a 50 percent hour, and students who got no behavioral issues and who experienced received the lottery could strike any educator or innovator they selected with a pie. (Not coincidentally,...

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Inside a KIPP School

We've done thousands of hours of fieldwork within the last eight years in 12 KIPP institutions in five areas, interviewing ratings of educators, students, and administrators. It really is true an atmosphere of order prevails generally. We discovered that schools that get started by establishing a...

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The Softer Side of ‘No Excuses’

Since their begin in Houston in 1994, KIPP (Knowledge Is Electric power Program) charter institutions have been the most famous of the No Excuses institutions. Employing strict self-discipline, a protracted college day and season, and selected teachers carefully, No Excuses universities move disadvantaged...

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New Teachers

The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Review (B&B) data, however, give us a feeling which bachelor's level recipients are in fact entering coaching (instead of training to enter in the job) and other occupations by looking at cohorts that received their levels in 1993, 2000, and 2008. We...

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The Teacher Workforce

We start utilizing the Universities and Staffing Review (SASS) data (see sidebar for a explanation of the datasets which we count) to offer an summary of demographic changes to the professor workforce because the late 1980s. Teaching positions have traditionally been held mostly by white females,...

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