The Softer Side of "No Excuses"

Autor/inn/en	Boyd, Alexandra; Maranto, Robert; Rose, Caleb
Titel	The Softer Side of "No Excuses"
Quelle	In: Education Next, 14 (2014) 1, S.48-53 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Discipline; School Schedules; Extended School Day; Extended School Year; Reading Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Achievement Gains; Negative Attitudes; Minority Group Students; Disadvantaged Youth; Parents; Teamwork; Elementary School Teachers; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Middle School Teachers; Academic Achievement; Arkansas; Louisiana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Disziplin; Schulzeiteinteilung; Ganztagsunterricht; Leseleistung; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Negative Fixierung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Eltern; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schulleistung
Abstract	Since their start in Houston in 1994, KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) charter schools have been the most celebrated of the No Excuses schools. Employing strict discipline, an extended school day and year, and carefully selected teachers, No Excuses schools move disadvantaged students who start behind their peers academically up to and above grade level in reading and math, and on the path to success in college. Unfortunately, within many education schools and teachers unions, KIPP detractors are more prevalent than KIPP backers. All too many professors and education administrators think that KIPP, and schools like it, succeed by working their students like dogs. Like all charter schools, KIPP schools are "chosen" by parents, but critics fear that disadvantaged parents do not know enough to choose wisely, or else do not have their children's best interest at heart. Leaving aside whether the critics patronize the people of color KIPP schools serve, the authors propose that KIPP and similar schools are not nearly as militaristic as critics, who may have never been inside them, fear. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10