The Globe has a story today about the KIPP middle school closest to Rhode Island. In Rhode Island, not a single district-operated open-enrollment urban middle school has even 50% of its students proficient in math or reading. Yet in Lynn, Massachusetts, KIPP Academy, now in its fourth year as one of over 65 […]
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KIPP Academy in Lynn, MA Outperforms Marblehead
Published by August 21st, 2008 in Charter Schools, KIPP, Middle Schools, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 2 Comments‘Mayoral Academies’ Accelerate RI Education Reform
Published by June 17th, 2008 in Charter Schools, Great Leadership, KIPP, Legislature, Mayoral Academies, Mayors and No Excuses. 0 CommentsIn recent days, the charter school movement in Rhode Island gathered new strength, with support from the House and Senate Leadership and a coalition of mayors representing half the population. Described by one national education reform leader as an “unprecedented” coalition of support, these mayors, led by Dan McKee of Cumberland, together with parents, teachers, […]
RI Charter Movement Advances Thanks to Leadership of Mayor McKee
Published by June 12th, 2008 in Charter Schools, Great Leadership, KIPP, Legislature, Mayoral Academies, Mayors, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 0 CommentsMayor Dan McKee (D-Cumberland) is an enthusiastic education reformer who inspires us with his well-informed, energetic hope for new public schools of choice in Rhode Island that could raise student achievement without increasing costs to taxpayers. Mayor McKee is not afraid to grab onto what so many consider a third rail in politics: structural reform […]
KIPP Report Card: Off the Charts
Published by April 21st, 2008 in Charter Schools, Great Leadership, KIPP, Middle Schools, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 0 CommentsI don’t get to post to this blog nearly as often as I used to before joining the Board of Regents. Much of the time I would otherwise spend blogging is instead directed to working with fellow Regents and other Rhode Island education reformers to make change happen.
Today I had the opportunity of […]
Fantastic Commentary in Forbes from Michelle Rhee
Published by January 25th, 2008 in Great Leadership, Mayors, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 0 CommentsThere is a must-read commentary for anyone interested in education reform by newly appointed Chancellor of the Washington, DC school system, Michelle Rhee, that appears in the most recent copy of Forbes. Here are some choice quotes:
Though we have among the highest per-pupil expenditures, we have among the lowest academic performance levels…. We have […]
The Sheldon Whitehouse Middle School?
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Charter Schools, Failed Leadership, KIPP, No Excuses and Urban Schools. 0 CommentsUS Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has plans to obtain a special federal appropriation to open a new urban middle school in Rhode Island. His office has examined the problem of low achievement in urban schools, and determined a significant part of the challenge to be our struggling middle schools. Bravo, we all agree. […]
Michelle Rhee Tells it Like it Is
Published by September 25th, 2007 in Great Leadership, No Excuses, Teacher Quality and Urban Schools. 1 CommentPerhaps the most exciting thing to happen in Washington, DC public schools in recent years has been Mayor Adrian Fenty’s takeover of the failed public school district, and the appointment of Michelle Rhee as Superintendent. She should be an inspiration to every superintendent in Rhode Island’s troubled urban districts like Providence, Central Falls, Woonsocket […]
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