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Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2011
Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter middle schools enroll a significantly higher proportion of African-American students than the local school districts they draw from, but 40 percent of the black males they enroll leave between grades 6 and 8, says a new nationwide study by researchers at Western Michigan University. With 99 charter schools…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Academic Achievement, Minority Groups
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2007
This article reports on an obstacle to achievement that seems particularly pronounced among Native American students high mobility. The turnover rate for one school, North Middle School in Rapid City, South Dakota, was 50 percent overall last year--meaning that half the school's 468 students came or went after the start of the school year. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, American Indians
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2006
Picked up by immigration authorities, undocumented children who are apprehended without their parents are sent to shelters throughout the United States and educated while they wait out deportation proceedings. At one such shelter in Miami, new students appear almost as rapidly as others leave. The shelter is run by Catholic Charities of Miami…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Federal Government, Foreign Countries