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Hi Liz,

I was just reading up on various ed strategies and realized I had not really learned about KIPP, I kind of knew of it, but wanted some specifics. I read a paper on how it is successful in increasing grad rates from high school, but that they are not so successful in college.
How do you feel about the whole paying them for learning. I mean that is kind of like work, but learning is so different from work, what happens when they are not getting paid for their school work? Also what happens in schools went the leader moves on?
I like the anti-bullying policy and ways to counter it although the one strike policy is a bit much.
My dissertation is on identity development in teens, focused on multiracial teens. What happens in their school experience. Many schools have very strict discipline policies, without any corrective measures. Some how that just kind of seems to support the school to prison pipelines for minority students, rather than looking for way to help the student understand their error and learn better ways to behave and interact. School is naturally a social place, it is perhaps the primary way we inculturate our next generation, And given how schools are white power arenas, the skills for cultural success need to be taught in schools, by not giving chances to change and improve that door is constantly slamed in students faces.