Schools Matter: KIPP Indianapolis: Dropout and Pushout Factory - 0 views
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Jeff Bernstein on 26 Aug 11Johns Hopkins researcher, Bob Balfanz, defined a "dropout factory" as a school that graduates fewer than 60 percent of its 9th grader four years later. Wonder what Balfanz would call a middle school that loses over 60 percent of its new students in one year! And yet that is exactly what is happening at the KIPP testing chain gangs that are billed as the future schooling model to emulate for urban America.