Why KIPP Is Not Corporate: KIPP and Social Justice

Autor/inn/en	Maranto, Robert; Ritter, Gary
Titel	Why KIPP Is Not Corporate: KIPP and Social Justice
Quelle	In: Journal of School Choice, 8 (2014) 2, S.237-257 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1558-2159
DOI	10.1080/15582159.2014.910052
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Social Justice; School Effectiveness; Disadvantaged Youth; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Change; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Schuleffizienz; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Bildungsreform; Kritik
Abstract	Critics see the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a network of 141 charter schools, as part of the corporate based school reform movement (e.g., Horn, 2011; Grey, 2011), a view shared by many traditional public school educators. So-called corporate based school reform strategies allegedly exploit students and teachers, employ very narrow metrics of success, and seek to maximize growth and revenue rather than student well-being. Using the now substantial empirical literature on KIPP schools, supplemented by fieldwork, this article refutes these views. Compared to traditional public schools in disadvantaged communities, KIPP schools increase student achievement and attainment, and seek to build community rather than commodity among teachers, students, and parents. KIPP schools are driven much less by individual profit than by social justice, at least as defined by Gramsci (1971) rather than the more fashionable Freire (2007). (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10