For most kids, school is still weeks away but for KIPP students, school began last July. With longer school years and school days, KIPP (The Knowledge Is Power Program) is a promising charter school whose success in some of the most difficult urban areas of the US has caught the eye of many an education official. Chancellor Joel Klein granted KIPP another charter for a school in Harlem while the school in the South Bronx gets some of the highest scores in the city. KIPP founder David Levin explains why the schools work.
Incomplete Sentences
Ryan King, research associate at the Sentencing Project and Paul Rosenzweig, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, on federal sentencing guidelines and Ashcroft's "blacklisting" of judges who don't abide by them
Urban Scrawl
Adam Gordon and Seth Brown, editor and publisher respectively of The Next American City, discuss ideas from their new journal on urban planning
KIPPing It Real
Marcus Williams, Eliza Catalino, both 8th graders at KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Academy in the Bronx; Quinton Vance, principal and an English teacher at KIPP in the Bronx and David Levin, co-founder of the KIPP National and superintendent of KIPP New York, on why their ...
Social Classroom
Sherry Ortner, anthropologist and author of New Jersey Dreaming: Capital Culture and the Class of '58 (Duke University Press, September 2003), examines social class in the Garden State
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