http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:57:14 -0600 hourly 1 http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/comment-page-1/#comment-5341 Mike G Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:19:08 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1819#comment-5341 You should be so lucky! You should be so lucky!

]]> http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/comment-page-1/#comment-5339 Robert Pondiscio Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:14:57 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1819#comment-5339 What do I look like, Elizabeth Green? What do I look like, Elizabeth Green?

]]> http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/comment-page-1/#comment-5336 Mike G Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:16:20 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1819#comment-5336 Robert, seems like a great chance for an enterprising blogger to score some off the record interviews with teachers there, the co-principals, and in-the-know observers on what really went down...consider yourself nominated! Robert, seems like a great chance for an enterprising blogger to score some off the record interviews with teachers there, the co-principals, and in-the-know observers on what really went down…consider yourself nominated!

]]> http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/comment-page-1/#comment-5333 Robert Pondiscio Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:37:04 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1819#comment-5333 Good one, Morgan. I think this is interesting because it changes the dynamic about KIPP as a model for others. I'm a KIPP fan, and I frequently urged parents of my students to enter the lottery for admission. But I've never believed that KIPP is a "model" for urban school reform for several reasons, including the one implied by the action of these teachers: there simply aren't enough teachers willing and able to commit to the punishing commitment for it to succeed at scale. Now some of the teachers themselves are raising the turnover issue. What I'll be waiting to see is if teachers in other KIPP and KIPP-style charters say "me too" or if this is an anomaly. Good one, Morgan. I think this is interesting because it changes the dynamic about KIPP as a model for others. I’m a KIPP fan, and I frequently urged parents of my students to enter the lottery for admission. But I’ve never believed that KIPP is a “model” for urban school reform for several reasons, including the one implied by the action of these teachers: there simply aren’t enough teachers willing and able to commit to the punishing commitment for it to succeed at scale. Now some of the teachers themselves are raising the turnover issue. What I’ll be waiting to see is if teachers in other KIPP and KIPP-style charters say “me too” or if this is an anomaly.

]]> http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/14/kipp-to-my-u-my-darlin/comment-page-1/#comment-5331 morgan Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:52:24 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=1819#comment-5331 I'm kind of counting on some on the right to go apoplectic that KIPP teachers would ever want to abandon their students for a teacher's union, and for some on the left to be utterly shocked and baffled that anyone from the KIPP schools would see value in joining a union. Don't disappoint! I’m kind of counting on some on the right to go apoplectic that KIPP teachers would ever want to abandon their students for a teacher’s union, and for some on the left to be utterly shocked and baffled that anyone from the KIPP schools would see value in joining a union. Don’t disappoint!

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