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| KIPP’s mission is to create a respected, influential, national network of public schools that are successful in helping students from educationally underserved communities develop the knowledge, skills, character, and habits needed to succeed in college and the competitive world beyond. |
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Eight new KIPP schools opened their doors this summer, bringing the number of schools across the network to 66. See our current schools >> |
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KIPP has selected Jacksonville, Florida, as its only new national expansion site in 2010, and is partnering with Jacksonville Advocates for KIPP Schools (JAKS) to make it happen. Read local coverage >> |
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In August, the U.S. Department of Education awarded KIPP supplemental federal funding to provide for student programs and extended learning time at six KIPP schools, as well as leadership development across the network. Read more >> |
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KIPP welcomes Jonathan Cowan as the Executive Vice President of Research, Design & Innovation. Jonathan comes to KIPP from the Boston Consulting Group, where he was one of the leaders of BCG’s public education practice. Read more >> |
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Inspired to lead a new KIPP school? The KIPP School Leadership Program is accepting applications. The final deadline for applications is February 20, 2009.
Lead a KIPP school >> |
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 KIPP schools ranked #1, #2 among open-enrollment schools in New Orleans. Read more >> |
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Amber Young and students at KIPP Raíces Academy,
one of three new KIPP elementary schools in 2008.
(Photo by Nicholas Alan Cope) |
Rainwater Foundation’s $5.5 million grant supports elementary growth
When Rosalie started pre-kindergarten as a four-year-old, she did not know any letters of the alphabet. On first meeting her pre-K teacher, she was extremely shy, and did not communicate at all, even in Spanish, her first language. Rosalie could identify one of four basic shapes, and could not produce any rhyming words when asked . . .
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Participants in discussion at a
Research for Better Teaching session |
School leaders engage with
Research for Better Teaching
While the teachers at KIPP Academy Charlotte are used to seeing their school leader Keith Burnam walk into their classrooms each Monday, on the last week in September he did not come alone. Instead of observing his teachers by himself, this time he was accompanied by Ruth Sernak, an instructional coach with Research for Better Teaching. Sernak was there to support Burnam’s observation and aid his analysis of how well his teachers are . . .
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KIPP alumnus Myles Nicholson studying
at North Carolina School of Science and Math. |
In Durham, North Carolina, this
KIPPster is ready for college
When Myles Nicholson was a little kid living in California, his mom gave him an old, rickety computer with QBasic, a programming language, and a copy of QBasic for Dummies. By the time he was eight, Myles was hooked. “I started making my own little programs, testing them out on my mom and sisters. It was my introduction to computer science, and I loved it,” he remembers . . .
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