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Work hard. Be nice. : how two inspired teachers created the most promising schools in America
Washington Post education reporter Mathews delves into the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and follows the enterprise's founders, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, from their days as young educators in the Teach for America program to heading one of the country's most controversial education programs running today.
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Teachers riled by Morgan's choice for chief inspector
\"[Finland] is universally agreed to have an excellent education system, characterised by co-operation, collaboration and trust,\" she said. \"A far cry from the charter school ethos of the US.\" Her favourite candidate is said to be Mr [Dave Levin], co-founder of the KIPP group. The group, which was praised by Ms Morgan's predecessor Michael Gove, runs a network of US \"charter schools\". Like academies, these are publicly funded but operate independently of local government. By employing strict discipline and an extended school day and year, KIPP claims to dramatically increase the odds that a disadvantaged student will enter and graduate from college. Mr Levin has previously attributed KIPP's success in New York to not being \"straight jacketed\" by union contracts and being able to hire and fire at will.
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The Business of Apps -- What's Your App? Educator Fits In 'Scrabble' Time
The Wall Street Journal asked Dave Levin, 42, co-founder of KIPP charter schools to discuss his favorite app.
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McDonogh gets even with Gilman, 8-4
McDonogh next takes on top-ranked Calvert Hall, a 9-1 winner over No. 7 Mount St. Joseph. Calvert Hall dethroned McDonogh for last year's crown. The Greyhounds play host to Mount St. Joseph today. [Dave Levin]'s route-going effort included seven Gilman hits -- including doubles by Jamie Biddison and Sean Tysko (one RBI). He allowed three walks -- the first coming in the fourth inning -- and escaped a fifth-inning, bases-loaded jam by getting Luke Suchy to ground out to third base. PHOTO; [Gilman]'s Jay Homa (7) slides into third as McDonogh third baseman David Kowitz covers to apply the tag.; Credit: GENE SWEENEY JR./SUN STAFF PHOTO
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Cahners Ups Levin, Cohen
[Dave Levin] joined Multichannel News as Webmaster in November 1997 and went on to serve in several important positions, assuming strategic responsibility for Cablevision and Multichannel News International, as well as the Broadcasting & Cable Internet publications. He was appointed director of Web development in fall 1999.
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Six Jews receive top civilian honor
Among the honorees at the White House last week were Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the co-founders of the Knowledge Is Power Program network of college-preparatory public schools in underserved communities; Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America; Dr.
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St. Paul cooks up `inspector' title for Joel Grover
# Driving past KSTP-TV earlier this week, Debby Enblom had a fleeting thought: \"I should stop and say `hi.' \" She didn't. She just kept on tooling. Enblom, a former KS reporter, returned to the Twin Cities - as she has done often since going to Boston to be entertainment reporter for WNEV-TV - to see her fiance and mom. Despite layoffs and related turmoil at the Boston station, Enblom says, \"I haven't lost my job and have no intention of leaving. I'm not talking to anyone in the Twin Cities about work. I was here 12 years, loved it and left.\" . . . Boston newspapers' TV critics have not exactly been wild about Debby's work. Word from the TV critics at the three Boston-area newspapers suggest that a \"Panned in Boston\" headline pretty much sizes up Enblom's 10-month tenure there. \"Boston (TV critics) are notorious for being very cruel. They are paid to do that. I haven't been losing any sleep over what they have printed,\" says Enblom, who says she doesn't remember getting much negative press. . . . Quincy Patriot Ledger TV editor Terry Ann Knopf did a damning column about Enblom's knowledge of the national and local cultural scene in June and says, \"If the column was an informal quiz, it's fair to say Debby Enblom flunked royally.\"
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School of Hard Choices; In the KIPP Academy Program, It's Motivation That's Fundamental
[Dave Levin] thought his home town might work better for KIPP. Armed with the first-year scores, he persuaded the New York City school district to let him open the second KIPP school in the Bronx. But it had the same ugly beginning. His new principal verbally flayed him to show her staff she wasn't playing favorites, he recalls. To find more students, he had to sneak into a parents' meeting from which he had been barred, and whisper invitations to take a look at KIPP, before he was escorted out. There is no active opposition to KIPP, although some skeptics say they want to see how the achievement gains hold up, and note that it will take many, many more such schools to make a dent in the problems of low-income neighborhoods. They also suggest that KIPP might be doing well because it attracts the most motivated parents, to which KIPP teachers reply that their students had the same parents when they were doing terribly in regular public schools. KIPP schools have many students with disabilities, and expulsions are rare, their enrollment figures show. KIPP accountants calculate that the longer hours and trips increase per-pupil costs by about 13 percent in their schools across the country. In some expensive cities like New York, however, KIPP is still spending less per student than regular public schools are. [Mike Feinberg], married now to a former Teach for America teacher, has left his post at San Francisco headquarters to go back to Houston and be with kids again, supervising two KIPP middle schools and the new elementary and high school. Levin, still looking for the right woman, resisted attempts to move him to San Francisco and remains at KIPP New York, helping the new principal, Quinton Vance, while focusing on KIPP principal and teacher training and the development of KIPP curriculum materials.
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Let's shed some light on our faceless governors
The Review of Governance and Strategic Leadership in English Further Education recently arrived in colleges and governors have been invited to comment on its recommendations, as part of a consultation process that will visit all English regions.
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