Work Hard. Be Nice

Autor/in	Mathews, Jay
Titel	Work Hard. Be Nice
Quelle	In: Education Next, 9 (2009) 2, S.29-35 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Urban Education; School Restructuring; Low Income Groups; School Culture; School Effectiveness; Minority Group Children; Teacher Expectations of Students; Academic Achievement; Charter Schools; College Preparation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Schuleffizienz; Schulleistung; Charter school; Charter-Schule
Abstract	In 1994, fresh from a two-year stint with Teach for America, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin inaugurated the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) in Houston with an enrollment of 49 5th graders. By this Fall, 75 KIPP schools will be up and running, setting children from poor and minority families on a path to college through a combination of hard work, long hours, innovative teaching, and a "no excuses" school culture. Jay Mathews, education columnist at the "Washington Post," has written for more than two decades about schools where children from low-income families succeed academically. His articles about mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, whose disadvantaged East L.A. students regularly aced the AP calculus exam, inspired the film "Stand and Deliver." Mathews also developed the Challenge Index for rating high schools according to their success in encouraging students to take college-level Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses. Mathews' latest book, "Work Hard. Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America" was published by Algonquin Books in January 2009 and chronicles how two young teachers created the most talked-about school reform in the U.S. today. This article presents excerpts that tell the story of how the KIPP network began and reveal why the KIPP model works so well. (Contains 3 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10