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By Ashley Boncimino
Published Dec 24, 2013
With dozens of outdoor retailers already in the area and retail giant Cabela's ramping up to open next spring, some outfitters are wondering how much more the market can take.
"In outdoor equipment, it's becoming hard to turn a profit," said Sunrift Adventures owner Bo Terry, whose business has been at its current location in Travelers Rest since 1994. "To me, it's an oversaturation. I think Greenville is an over-marketed area."
The Greenville area is home to a host of outdoor retailers, including big-box names, regional stores and independent shops, such as Sunrift Adventures. (Photo by Ashley Boncimino)
Those don't include sport-specific stores such as TTR Bikes, Pedal Chic, Carolina Triathlon, Merrimack Canoes Co., Palmetto State Armory and Fleet Feet Sports, among many others in Greenville alone. Spartanburg sports its own host of outdoor retailers, including the recently opened The Local Hiker.
"You begin to wonder how many more outdoor retailers the Greenville and Spartanburg market can actually support," said Appalachian Outfitters owner Jonathan Welsh, who established his store in 1994 with his wife.
Sunrift Adventures, which Terry opened in 1980, has benefited enormously from Swamp Rabbit Trail traffic in Travelers Rest, though it has significantly felt the effects of big retailers coming into the market, Terry said. The store employs a staff of experts and sells outdoor apparel and equipment for paddling, backpacking, biking and climbing.
"There's been some ups and downs, but we're still not back at the level we were at before REI," he said.
REI opened its first Greenville store in November 2011 on Woodruff Road, joining the Academy Sports that opened in 2009 and Dick's Sporting Goods.
"REI's ultimate goal is to collaborate with other retailers to increase the amount of people enjoying the outdoors; this benefits the entire industry," an REI representative said in an emailed statement. "Other outdoor retailers and REI can thrive in the Upstate together by serving the needs of outdoor enthusiasts and helping to grow this group of people. We also recognize ways we differ from other retailers, including being a member-based co-op and often in product assortment. Because of this, if REI cannot fulfill our member or customers' needs, we can refer them to the best location to do so." REI would not comment further.
A spokesman for Cabela's, which is slated to open in spring, said the company's 50-year history as a direct mail business means they have a wealth of hard data about where they should set up shop.
"We have a good idea of where our customers live and what they buy," he said. "When we looked at the Greenville market, we saw a deep, loyal customer base, not only in Greenville but across that region."
Welsh said his sales, which dipped after REI opened, have picked back up now.
"I'm sure when Cabela's opens there's going to be that 60-, 90-, 120-day window where we see some slowdown because customers have to go in and see what it's all about," he said. "I think that's the natural flow of the retail environment."
Welsh said he and his wife attempt to meet or beat prices at big-box stores. He said smaller retailers can also remain competitive by hiring staff with outdoor expertise.
Half-Moon Outfitters owner Beezer Molton agreed, saying customer service and product knowledge are where stores set themselves apart.
"We pride ourselves on understanding the sport well and being able to explain it well and having a product to serve that," said Molton, who operates eight stores across the Southeast.
Another avenue stores have taken is providing a specific product mix built on market consideration, he said.
Molton said he's more worried about online retailers, such as Amazon, than he is about Cabela's and REI.
Ordering from fulfillment centers means money is pouring out of communities rather than supporting the local economy, causing brick-and-mortar stores to go out of business, he said.
"I don't blame someone for shopping around. I like the best price I can get, too," Molton said. "But I do, however, keep into consideration, am I buying local, or am I buying independent? Is my money staying in the community? And we can certainly tell that our money is staying in the community more than other shops."
While the Greenville market may be full, Welsh said that more stores simply means retailers will have to further diversify, specialize and differentiate through customer service.
"The slices of pie do get smaller and smaller, as these retailers come in." he said. "We're on a very small boat on a very large ocean, and I have to focus on what's going on in my boat."
Reach Ashley Boncimino at 864-235-5677, ext. 103, or @ashleyboncimino.


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Will Palestinians Have Freedom of the Press?
Rubin, Judith Colp, American Journalism Review
Last December, for the first time in nine years, Yosef Ahmad traveled outside the Gaza strip. Raised in one of the refugee camps that dot the territory then occupied by Israel, the 28-year-old aspiring television news producer was headed to Holland with several other journalists to receive a month of intensive training from the BBC.
With Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and Jericho about to replace the Israeli military occupation, many residents were anxious to establish their own media. Soon after the peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization last fall, the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) was founded to oversee the creation of a government-controlled TV and radio network.
Many Palestinian journalists suspect a free press is not in Yasir Arafat's plans. Most likely, they say, he will follow the lead of other Arab leaders and tightly control the media.
Press freedom is not mentioned in the draft constitution, although PLO officials seem to grasp the concept. After being criticized for asking journalists covering Arafat's symbolic arrival in Gaza to pay for the privilege, the head of the PLO's press operations acknowledged it "may have infringed on the freedom of the press" and nixed the idea.
Arafat, however, apparently has no intention to delegate media control to anyone but his supporters. After Yosef Ahmad returned home early this year, he learned he was not among those who would be groomed for the PBC's television operation. Instead, most if not all of the candidates are members of Fatah, Arafat's PLO faction, and the PBC itself will be headed by Radwan Abu Ayyash, a Fatah loyalist.
"They want people who will adopt their policies," says Ahmad, "and I won't do that."
Sam'an Khoury, the PBC's deputy director, suggests that his own loyalty to the Palestinian Democratic Party, an "opposition" group that has supported Arafat on most matters, demonstrates that non-Fatahs are not being shut out. …

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If you ever wanted to get into wine tasting or if you just want to enjoy some good wine then you are in luck because this Memorial Day is the 2nd Annual City of Angels Wine Fest Charity Benefit. The Rotary Club will be hosting the event at the Music Center plaza on May 30, 2011. Last year's fest was a great success and this year should be no different. There will be a delicious line-up of food and beverages as well as art, music and entertainment. Some of California's premier wineries will be there as well as first class catering by Patina Restaurant Group. The Patina Group will include Nick + Stef's Steakhouse, Café Pinot, Kendall's Brasserie, Zucca Ristorante, and Tina's Tacos.
The events will include a silent auction and art auction sponsored by Saatchi Online. There will be live performances by Ours and The Family Crest. This is all for a good cause and the money raised will help support the $500,000 pledge from LA5 to fight homelessness. The benefits will help renovate and develop the Volunteers of America Los Angeles Rotary house which is a transitional facility in downtown Los Angeles that provides shelter and vocational opportunities for more than 1,800 annually. This is a great way to take your next step to becoming a wine connoisseur and help the Volunteers of America Los Angeles.
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Location: Downtown Los Angeles
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This weekend… Etruria Canals Festival June 2013
Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June 2013, 10am to 5pm
Junction of Trent & Mersey and Caldon canals, Etruria
The countdown is on for the 20th Etruria Canals Festival; one of the largest free events in Stoke-on-Trent. The free festival will bring the canals of Stoke-on-Trent alive with a historic boat parade, Real Ale Festival, music and dance, vintage cars, boat trips and other activities. Colourful historic canal boats moored along the towpaths of Etruria, including narrowboat Lindsay, who was a recent star on BBC television, after her recent refit at the boatyard in Stone. Princess, the historic beam engine in Jesse Shirley's Bone and Flint Mill will be 'in steam' and other attractions are in planning.
For more information, visit www.etruriacanalsfestival.org.
How to get to the Festival
Train. The Festival site is a 10 minute walk along the Trent & Mersey Canal towpath from Stoke station. Just head north and enjoy a pleasant walk to the show.
Bus. Take a bus to Stoke station, Hanley bus station or Festival Park. The Festival is a pleasant ten to fifteen minutes walk from these points.
Bicycle. Just cycle along the towpath of the Trent & Mersey or Caldon canals and you will get to the Festival site. Ample bike parking, but please, walk through the Festival site to avoid the crowds.
Walk. Perhaps the best way to get to the Festival. Along the towpaths of the Trent & Mersey and Caldon canals to the junction at Etruria.
Aeroplane. Nearest international airports are Birmingham and Manchester, frequent trains to Stoke and then a short walk, as above.
Festival Parking
Cars may be parked on the recreation ground off Etruria Vale Road, ST1 4RB, opp Kilndown Close. Stewards will be on hand to direct traffic.
Disabled parking will be available with the help of stewards. Please report in at the Kilndown Close steward point and ask for advice.
The organisers ask festival goers not to attempt to park in the Castlefield Street/ Lomas Street area as this area must be kept clear for emergency vehicles and local residents.
The festival organiser accepts no responsibility for any loss or damage to any vehicle that has been parked within the recreation ground or festival area.


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What Causes Ringworm?Is Ringworm even a worm? No, it is a fungus! Fungi are naturally present in our environment. They flourish in warm, damp or moist conditions. The Ringworm fungus itself, Trichophyton rubrumts, exist in extremely large populations in locker rooms and bathing areas precisely because of the favorable conditions noted above.
They human body's natural skin flora contains many kinds of fungi in levels considered normal and in balance with skin's ecosystem. Usually the body is proficient at containing the fungi at healthy levels. However, if allowed to flourish beyond the norm you may develop ringworm.
Tinea corporis is in lay terms is also known as Ringworm. Trichophyton rubrum, the fungus, is the cause. Ringworm is contagious. Contaminated towels, sports equipment, or coming into contact with contaminated animals, people or even soil.
Contamination starts almost instantly. It begins with a red skin, itchy skin patch of skin. From there it can expand quite easily, and infect increasingly larger areas of the body.
If left untreated Ringworm will spread quickly to cover even larger patches of skin. At this stage it might not only be itchy but can become very uncomfortable and prone to more serious infection.
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11-06-2007, 10:50 PM #1212 Pointer
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Its not that hard to get crop damage tags. Well usually. I know I farmer who had all kinds of damage but couldent get any for some reason this year. Most of the time you can show the CO the damage and he will hook you up..
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If a farmer needs help all he has to do is get the word out and I figure he won't have any trouble gettin a bunch of folks with their own tags. Ya think?
Yea but they cant get help in July when the damage is occuring...
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yep...didn't think of that.
Your right though. Granting permission would help a lot of next years problems.
301 KAR 2:176. Deer control tags.
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 150.105 allows the commissioner to authorize the destruction of wildlife that is causing damage. KRS 150.025 authorizes the department to promulgate administrative regulations regulating the taking of wildlife. This administrative regulation establishes the procedures under which deer may be taken to alleviate localized agricultural and wildlife habitat damage until it is appropriate to apply deer herd stabilization or reduction measures on a county-wide basis through regular hunting seasons.
Section 1. Definitions. (1) "Damage to wildlife habitat" means:
(a) The existence of a browse line caused by deer; or
(b) Damage to more than thirty-five (35) percent of native plant species preferred by deer.
(2) "Deer control tag" means a tag issued by the department which authorizes a hunter to take antlerless deer during an open deer season.
(3) "Deer destruction permit" means written authorization from the department, pursuant to KRS 150.105, to take deer outside the regular hunting season framework.
(4) "Deer food plot" means a crop grown to attract and feed deer.
(5) "Department representative" means a department employee who is qualified and authorized by the commissioner to assess deer damage.
(6) "Landowner" means the person who has title to a particular property.
Section 2. Qualifying for Deer Control Tags. (1) A landowner with fewer than 1,000 contiguous acres shall qualify for deer control tags if:
(a) He has permitted deer hunting on the property during the previous deer season;
(b) Standard deterrent measures recommended by a department representative have proven ineffective or are impractical; and
(c) A department representative certifies deer damage to crops, gardens, property or wildlife habitat.
(2) A landowner with 1,000 contiguous acres or more shall qualify for deer control tags without evidence of damage if:
(a) He has permitted deer hunting on the property during the previous deer season;
(b) According to the judgement of the department representative, regular deer seasons are inadequate to control deer populations on the property; and
(c) The landowner agrees to:
1. Follow the deer management practices recommended by the department representative; and
2. Supply the department with weight, age and condition data on deer taken from his property.
(3) A department representative shall make an on-site inspection of each property for which a request for deer control tags has been made, unless the property:
(a) Has been previously inspected by the department and the landowner affirms that deer damage still exists; or
(b) Is immediately adjacent to property assessed by a department representative as having severe deer damage.
(4) A landowner whose property is immediately adjacent to property assessed by a department representative as having severe deer damage shall be issued damage control tags upon request of the landowner, even if there is no evidence of deer damage on his or her property.
(5) The department shall not issue deer control tags to a landowner whose only damage is to a deer food plot.
Section 3. Applying for Deer Control Tags. (1) A landowner wishing to apply for deer control tags shall contact the department through:
(a) A conservation officer;
(b) The appropriate district wildlife biologist; or
(c) The Division of Wildlife in Frankfort.
(2) If required by Section 2 of this administrative regulation, a department representative shall visit the property and assess the nature and extent of deer damage.
(3) A request for an assessment shall be made on or before September 30 to be eligible for current year damage control tags.
(4) A request for an assessment made after September 30 shall be considered for the following year.
Section 4. Number of Tags Issued. (1) The department shall determine the number of deer control tags to be issued for each landholding based on the recommendation of the department representative.
(2) Except as provided in Section 2(2) or (4) of this administrative regulation, the department shall not issue a deer control tag if:
(a) The county deer season is adequate to achieve the desired reduction in deer numbers; or
(b) Crop or environmental damage is not present.
Section 5. Transfer of Deer Control Tags. (1) Deer control tags shall be issued in the landowner's name.
(2) A landowner:
(a) May transfer a deer control tag to another person;
(b) Shall not issue more than five (5) deer control tags to an individual;
(c) Shall require hunters to sign a deer control tag at the time of transfer; and
(d) Shall return unissued tags to the department before January 25.
Section 6. Use of Deer Control Tags. (1) A deer control tag shall not be valid except on the landholding for which it was issued.
(2) A deer control tag shall expire after the license year for which it was issued.
(3) A person using a deer control tag:
(a) Shall have in his possession:
1. A deer control tag with his signature; and
2. A valid hunting license and the receipt portion of a current deer permit, unless exempt from license or permit requirements by KRS 150.170;
(b) May use deer control tags during archery, crossbow, and gun or muzzle-loader seasons to take antlerless deer;
(c) Shall not take more than five (5) deer per license year with deer control tags; and
(d) Shall abide by the provisions of 301 KAR 2:172, except that he shall:
1. Not take antlered deer;
2. Tag deer with the deer control tag rather than the carcass tag portion of the deer permit.
(4) Deer taken with a deer control tag shall not count toward the annual limit as specified in 301 KAR 2:172.
Section 7. Deer Destruction Permits. (1) The department may issue a deer destruction permit:
(a) To a landowner:
1. Who continues to experience damage after being issued deer control tags; or
2. Whose property cannot legally be hunted; and
(b) Where deer are posing a public safety or environmental threat.
(2) A deer destruction permit shall specify:
(a) The number and sex of deer to be destroyed;
(b) The method of destruction;
(c) The name of the person who will destroy the deer; and
(d) The dates during which the destruction will take place.
(3) A deer destruction permit shall not be issued without the recommendation of a representative of the department and the approval of the commissioner.
(4) A person destroying deer shall:
(a) Attach a disposal tag provided by the department to each carcass;
(b) Not remove the disposal tag until the carcass is processed or disposed of; and
(c) If an antlered deer was taken, turn the antlers in to the department.
(5) A deer destruction permit shall not be used except as specified on the permit.
(6) Nothing in this administrative regulation shall prohibit a landowner or tenant from taking action to control deer that are posing a direct and immediate threat to life or property.
Section 8. Denial or Revocation or Deer Control Tags or Destruction Permits and Appeal Procedures. (1) The department may revoke a deer control tag or destruction permit and deny a future tag or permit to a person who:
(a) Fails to comply with the requirements of this administrative regulation;
(b) Is convicted of a deer administrative regulation violation; or
(c) Otherwise abuses the Deer Control Tag Program.
(2) An appeal of a revocation or a denial of eligibility shall be submitted:
(a) In writing to the commissioner; and
(b) Within sixty (60) days of the date of the revocation or denial.
(3) An appeal of the commissioner's decision shall be made in writing to the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission within sixty (60) days of the commissioner's decision.
(4) The Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission shall hear the appeal at its next regularly scheduled meeting. (23 Ky.R. 217; eff. 9-11-96; Am. 24 Ky.R. 2745; 25 Ky.R. 302; eff. 8-17-98; 26 Ky.R. 2300; 27 Ky.R. 490; eff. 8-14-2000; 28 Ky.R. 2420; eff. 7-15-02; 32 Ky.R. 2100; 33 Ky.R. 94; eff. 7-12-06.)
(6) Nothing in this administrative regulation shall prohibit a landowner or tenant from taking action to control deer that are posing a direct and immediate threat to life or property, NUFF SAID!
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The holiday season is rapidly approaching – lights are being strung, dinners and get – togethers are being planned, and lists are being made (things to do, people to see, and much more!) With all of that running around you're going to be doing, why not let the Library give you some assistance? Our Give the Gift of Reading Guide for 2011 highlights so many wonderful books for that special child or children in your life. Or do you know an adult who loves children's books? This guide will be great for them as well!
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Hello ,
The answer is yes, at the present time. I explain below.
The heart of the answer to your question is in the Fourth Amendment to the US constitution:
Amendment IV:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The IVth amendment speaks about individuals right to privacy and usually refers to governmental agencies. Below is an excerpt by Orin Kerr a professor at law at XXXXX XXXXX University. The discussions about this issue have all centered on whether the police (governments) have the right to read someone text messages or pager messages. The 5th Circuit court has held that a search of cell phone text messages by the police as a search incident to an arrest as lawful. Other federal circuits have not taken up the issues at this time; therefore, this is the prevailing law at the present time.
Additionally, in theory, at issue is if the text message was observed to be in plain view and in an area that the police (government) had legal access to either by search warrant (for un-related issue) or by consent then the reading of the text message would also be justifiable. However, due to the fact that text messages are stored electronically the only way I can see this fact pattern occurring is if someone handed their cell phone to a police officer and allowed them to look through it or the officer had a search warrant for the cell phone. I included this merely as additional information for you.
I hope this helps you and thank you for visiting JustAnswer for assistance.
So what about the text messages? XXXXX XXXXX University Law Professor Orin Kerr tackled this question, arguing that unlike the phone numbers dialed and recorded in Smith, and unlike the pager-signals used to track the defendant's movement in Knotts, text messages represent content. This crucial distinction seems to tip the balance in favor of an individual's legitimate expectation of privacy. That theory is buttressed by the Fifth Circuit's opinion in U.S. v. Finley that one has a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in one's cell phone text messages as well as numbers; on the other hand, due to the "search incident to arrest" doctrine, the Court still held the search to be lawful - and other federal circuits have yet to address the issue.
So why does the extension of this doctrine raise so many questions?
As it becomes easier to utilize technology, the balance between government interests and individual privacy becomes harder to navigate. The situation may be less dire or alarming than many stories suggest, but the fact remains: as our access to information grows in speed and scope, the avenues a government actor has to reach evidence grows right along with it. Nowhere is that more true than during an arrest: if Fourth Amendment jurisprudence follows the Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit in viewing phones and other digital devices as akin to Tupperware stash-boxes, an officer engaged in an otherwise lawful arrest could potentially browse a driver's text messages without fear of violating constitutional protections. Although not everyone has 14,000 salacious texts to a chief of staff to worry about, it's a thought-provoking idea nonetheless - and one that brings into clear relief the questions raised as personal digital technology and the Fourth Amendment continue to cross paths.
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Niceville, Fl-- It was a back and forth all game but the Lady Raiders were able to hang on at the end versus the Chipola Lady Indians.
After NWF State missed the front end of a 1-and-1, Chipola had the ball under their own basket with a chance to win but thanks to some tight defense, Jasmine Crawford's last second shot was no good.
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February 11, 2014 01:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson
These days, celebrities are all about showing the world exactly what they look like without makeup. Except, in most cases, their supposed lack of contouring seems suspect, at best. Real Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel recently bucked the trend, with a picture that actually deserves the no makeup label.
It's refreshing to see a celebrity taking a risk and posting a photo that is most definitely free of makeup…and also free of Photoshop tweaks and flattering Instagram filters. Bethenny Frankel did just that the other day, sharing a snapshot featuring a face that, while still lovely, was definitely not covered in makeup.
A self-deprecating Bethenny acknowledged that, in the makeup-free picture, she didn't possess her usual bright eyes. In the photo's caption, she quipped, "This is my 'it's Monday' face, which looks very similar to my 'I'm exhausted and it's only Monday' face."
While Bethenny does look a bit tired in her latest selfie, it's this honesty that actually makes the photo far more appealing than the typical 'bare-faced' celebrity photo. Fans just cannot relate to a star who always looks perfect, which is, perhaps, why Bethenny is receiving such positive feedback in the aftermath of her gutsy Twitter update. Of course, she's also eager to encourage fans to do the same, for, after one follower lauded her for actually "having the balls" necessary to post a no makeup picture, the reality star countered, "My tweeps have balls too!"
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Dell faces bidding war with rumoured rival offer
Founder's backers face competition from equity firm
The consortium of investors – including Microsoft – that's planning to buy Dell could face competition from at least one other major investor, as the deadline for a deal gets closer.
According to sources cited by Bloomberg, Blackstone – a New York private equity company - is mulling a bid to rival the $24 billion package put together by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management.
Dell's board has a deadline of 22 March for receiving other offers, and the emergence of another bidder could force Silver Lake to increase its offer.
The offer comes amid tense negotiations, with some shareholders seeking more money than is currently on the table, but whether an outside bidder can see value in the company when going up against CEO and founder Michael Dell remains to be seen, especially in an uncertain PC market.
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I'm in my mid 40's and started riding May of 2010 after my knees said no to jogging and have stuck with it unlike other exercise routines. I really enjoy riding and I have a nice park 1 mile from my house. I started out on a used Mongoose MTB, then found a used Huffy MTB and was averaging around 16 mph on the road. I never took in on trails. I wanted to get a bigger frame to match a 34" inseam and found a deal I could not refuse on a barely used mint Felt Z45 with a bunch of upgrades. Now I ride slower to get to the park because the sidewalk is rough in places and the highway is very busy and narrow, but once I get in the park, I average 19.5-20.0 mph for 20-26 miles (depending on how much time I have) if I don't get behind a slow car somewhere during my ride. I ride 4 days per week most of the time.
My take on exercise is my metabolism has sped up tremendously, I have become almost immune to colds, and generally, I just feel better. My knees do get sore when I ride hard but by the next day they are usually back to normal. Now if I was just as disciplined to do some pushups and situps I'd be much more well rounded!


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Boy, Nico is really kicking butt and is seriously beating up Lewis in practice and quali.
Has Taipan,richard and 2009 been right when they say that Lewis is overrated? Have the Lewis Hamilton fans been wearing blinkers when commenting on who i believe to be the fastest in F1? Or is Nico the real deal and when in a top car he is the best?
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Bears Cutler breaks thumb during Chargers game, out 6 to 8 weeks?!!!
Well thats great, Yahoo Sports is reporting that Cutler broke his thumb in todays game agaisnt the Chargers. I guess it was done when Cutler doing what he does best, preventing a touchdown after an interception he threw. At least Backup Caleb Hanie can do some things, and maybe at the same level as Cutler. On the other hand, it probably doesn't matter the way things are going with GreenBay or the 49ers.
Oh and here is my Devin Hester figure I bought for Cutler to play with, but now has to wait a few weeks.
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Ugh. This breaks my heart. What a great game yesterday, but what a price we're paying! Poor Cutler.
I also have these figures, Dan and I love them! I want a Matt Forte and Urlacher figure in this size and style!
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Yeah, I'm shocked they didn't get to Urlacher yet, he's always the first choice. And to make things weirder for a Boise Idaho person, if Caleb Hanie can't get the job done, Nathan Enderle is the back up back up. He was a pretty good QB for Idaho, BSU's rival.
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Thank you for this. I still had the other part of my question though, which is
QUESTION: If I have to move out of the area for work, can I do so and not get divorced..then come back to see my son and stay in that house or at least stay at my mom's 1/10 mile away and have my son come to me... then once I have money I'll file for visiting/sharing and divorce. Can my husband deny me access to my son?
What do I do when he tells me that I can't come into the house or "You can't take Nick with you now because he has other obligations?" (I was told that in October when I left the first time. Later Nick told me the other obligations were playing with the kids across the street.)
What do I do when he won't answer the telephone so I can speak to my son, or interrupts the call to say it's time to do something else? (The last time I was in PA he did that 4 times in the 7 days I was gone, even though I said I will call daily between 7:30 & 8pm to speak with Nick.)
Yes sir. My name is XXXXX XXXXX deed to the home but not on the mortgage. We purchased the home 1 1/2 years before we were married, when I was pregnant with our first child. We lost that child during childbirth (very premature). 12 months later had Nicholas. We got married a year later. So, the house was purchased about 1 1/2 - 2 years prior to our marriage.
The house is currently underwater financially. I don't want the house I can't afford the 900/mo mortgage. Let him have it. He'll need it to raise Nicky in. I want to move into my Mom's house, about 1/10 mile away.
Thank you for your assistance. I spoke with Mr. Steve Tanner with National Family Solutions and I have retained their services. I am probably going to have more questions but I think I now need to bring them through my case manager, Tara Nickson. Thank you so much for your help and for referring me to Steve.
Have a good day!
My only other question would be is it better to remain in the home at this point or stay with Mom around the corner at this point? Mom does still need my help mainly for emotional reasons... since Dad died 2 weeks ago she's on an emotional roller coaster and the evenings are hard for her - the house is now so quiet and she falls apart then. That's why I am there to help, and that is the excuse I am using with my husband.
I still have 99% of my things at the house... only enough clothes for about 3 days at mom's. So, technically I have not moved out yet. I can continue this way or I can return to his house and stay over a few days here a few days there... I can deal with that. Once he gets served it's going to be hell there though.
Ok. Thank you very much for everything, Because of the discussions I have had with you and Steve Tanner I am feeling SO much better!
Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for referring me to National Family Solutions. I hope everything works out well.
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Sounders FC midfielder Brad Evans is playing for the U.S. national team in the CONCACAF Gold Cup, but his Sounders FC teammates aren't far from his thoughts.
Brad Evans wished he could have been in Portland with his Sounders FC teammates for that wild atmosphere at PGE Park Wednesday. But Evans has another duty to fulfill — a U.S. national team call-up for the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Evans practiced with the U.S. team Thursday at Starfire Sports Complex even as his Sounders FC mates got their work in on an adjacent field. The next time he takes the pitch for a game could be in red, white and blue on the Fourth of July, not in his customary rave green.
The U.S. faces Grenada at 6 p.m. Saturday at Qwest Field for its opening match of group play in the Gold Cup, the national team championship tournament of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The U.S. is the defending champion.
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"When you hear your anthem and you step on the field, it's a select group of guys from everywhere that are for one common goal," Evans said. "Similar to club, but you have some foreigners [in Major League Soccer]. It's all the same guys for one goal and it's definitely special."
Evans is a midfielder with Sounders FC, yet he was playing right fullback for Team USA. The U.S. squad in Seattle this week isn't the same group that made a dramatic run through the Confederations Cup in South Africa last week, except for a few players. Evans is taking advantage of the opportunity to get good coaching and more feedback on his play.
"He's really been a part of Seattle's success," U.S. coach Bob Bradley said. "He's a good competitor and athletic. He's had experience in the past with the U-20 team. It's a very good time to assess him in this group."
Meaning that Evans, 24, is being looked at to see where he might fit in the national team pool down the road. Before the Gold Cup, Evans represented the U.S. as a member of its under-20 team for about a year, which was coached by his boss in Seattle, Sigi Schmid.
There's no guarantee Evans will get on the field for the U.S., and he's obligated to remain with the team until its Gold Cup run ends. The Gold Cup final is July 26, so assuming the U.S. gets that far, Evans would miss Sounders FC games against Kansas City in the U.S. Open Cup; Houston; the friendly with Chelsea July 18; another regular-season match against the Chicago Fire; and potentially another U.S. Open Cup match, if Seattle makes it to the tournament semifinals.
"The most important thing is missing league games," Evans said. "If it was next month it would be a real concern because next month is loaded with league games. But this month we only have two league games in the time that I'll be gone. To be honest, it's a good time, if any, to be missing league games."
Evans is keeping up with his team even as his country has beckoned. He watched the Portland game on TV after practice with the national team.
"You wish you could just get down there and help out as much as you can," Evans said, "but everybody on the Sounders has trust in each other and full trust in the guys in the middle getting it done."
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The C in linguistics proved to Rebecca Mercado that college was going to be different.
"It was the first time I had ever received a grade lower than a B, and it was upsetting," admits Mercado, a biochemistry and cell biology major at the University of California, San Diego. The first in her family to attend a four-year college, Mercado was a strong student dating all the way back to her days in middle school at San Diego's KIPP Adelante Preparatory Academy. Perhaps as a result, she was "a little more cocky than I should have been" when arriving on campus for freshman year. Like many freshmen, Mercado experienced the distraction of being on her own for the first time, which took a toll on her grades. Holding down a job while taking more classes than she could handle didn't help. "It all came crashing down on top of me," Mercado says. Freshman year was "a big dose of reality," she says.
Here's another one: statistically speaking, Mercado might have been voted "Least Likely to Succeed" at birth. Low-income black and Hispanic students are by far the least likely U.S. students to graduate from high school and attend a four-year college. Those who are accepted to college are least likely to stick around and earn a degree. For each one who earns a bachelor's degree, 11 fall short somewhere along the line, giving students like Mercado a mere 8 percent chance of graduating from college.
Mercado persists. Reenergized after a summer internship with the KIPP Foundation in Chicago, she is back on campus for the fall semester of 2012. She credits the habits of mind and encouragement she received in middle school, and the contacts she maintains five years later with KIPP teachers and administrators, for propelling her forward. "This year I'm coming in with a clear head. I'm more focused on my classes and what I want to accomplish. I'm going to do better," she says. Her delivery communicates not hope or aspiration but conviction. "Nothing is going to keep me from graduating," she insists, adding for emphasis, "nothing."
Mercado's story—both her struggle and her determination— will be repeated over the next several years on college campuses across the U.S. At one level, she's just one more kid trying to pass biology, graduate, and make something of herself. But as the product of a KIPP school, Mercado is at the vanguard of a rapidly growing class of students whose success or failure could make or break the reputation of a closely watched group of charter schools and the sometimes-controversial, muscular brand of education they have pioneered. In 2015, more than 10,000 students from KIPP and other major charter-school highfliers will be on college campuses across the United States.
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You can't play the ingenue forever.
For much of its brief history, there has been something of a halo over the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP). Founded in Houston in 1994 by Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, a pair of Teach For America corps members, KIPP now has more than 100 schools in 20 states and Washington, D.C. It is the largest and best known of a class of charter-management organizations (CMOs) that includes Achievement First, YES Prep, Uncommon Schools, Mastery, Aspire, and others. This group shares a set of familiar characteristics: more and longer school days, with a college preparatory curriculum for all students; strict behavioral and disciplinary codes; and a strong focus on building a common, high-intensity school culture. Classrooms and halls are awash in motivational quotations and college banners, typically from the alma maters of the inevitably young, hard-charging teachers who staff the schools. The signature feature is high behavioral and academic expectations for all students, the vast majority of whom are low-income, urban black and Hispanic kids. It's this last feature that led KIPP and the others to be branded "No Excuses" schools, a label not universally embraced within the category.
The reputation of the No Excuses model is complicated and often divisive among professional educators. Outside the education bubble in the broader public mind, however, these high-flying charters are much-adored, attractive young upstarts, and the antidote to the dark, dispiriting "dropout factories" of media caricature. For years, a central motif of the feel-good narrative surrounding No Excuses charter schools has been their college acceptance rates. Houston-based YES Prep, for example, has made much of the fact that 100 percent of their graduating seniors have been accepted to college; more than 90 percent are the first in their family to attend a four-year college. The original cohort of KIPP students attended college at more than double the rate of their demographic peers: bracing, affirming, "It's Being Done" data points to warm the gap-closing hearts of ed reform hawks.
The April 2011 release of KIPP's College Completion Report changed the No Excuses narrative almost instantly from "college acceptance" to "college completion." A bold and laudable exercise in transparency, the report gave ammunition to KIPP's boosters and critics alike. Thirty-three percent of the earliest cohorts of KIPP middle-school students were found to have graduated college within six years, four times the average rate of students from underserved communities and slightly higher than the figure (31 percent) for all U.S. students. It was a clear and unambiguous accomplishment. Yet two out of three former KIPP students were failing to reach the bar, however audacious, that KIPP itself had established as "the essential stepping stone to rewarding work, a steady income, self-sufficiency and success." The affirming image of smiling, cap-and-gown–bedecked ghetto kids graduating high school and heading off to college and bright horizons beyond lost a bit of its luster.
KIPP has held fast to the idea that college is indispensable. The goal remains to see 75 percent of graduates earn a four-year college degree, comparable to the rate at which top-income-quartile students graduate. The bar has been set not by its critics but by KIPP itself: if KIPP and other No Excuses schools are to fulfill their promise as game changers in American education, and rewrite the script on reaching and teaching underserved kids, their graduates must not merely be accepted to college; they must demonstrate success once they get there.
KIPP has identified a number of factors it believes are critical to raising its students' college-completion rates, including enhanced academic preparedness; a set of "character strengths," like "grit," self-control, and optimism; matching each student with the right college; social and academic integration once they arrive on campus; and college affordability. The organization is making an increasingly aggressive effort to exercise some measure of control over each of these factors through partnerships with at least 20 colleges nationwide designed to create a pipeline to four-year colleges able to offer the greatest possible commitment and support to KIPP alumni.
While there is broad general agreement on what makes "first-generation" college-goers stay in school and take a degree, less clear is what it takes to create those characteristics and conditions in the first place, and how much accountability for college completion should be attributed to a student's K–12 education, his or her college, and the students themselves. KIPP's rapidly growing "KIPP Through College" program offers support programs and services stretching from middle school through college and beyond, including high school and college placement, financial literacy, mentorships, college and career advisement, and one-to-one support from some of the 100 full-time KIPP staff doing college counseling and support work throughout its network.
KIPP's recipe for getting students "to and through college" is about to be put to the test, if not quite at scale then in unprecedented numbers. In the 2012–13 school year, just over 1,000 former KIPP students are in college. Three years from now that figure will explode, with 10,000 KIPP alumni on America's campuses. KIPP chief executive officer Richard Barth takes care to manage expectations for how this "KIPP bubble" cohort will perform. The 75 percent figure is a "long-term play" and does not apply yet. Fifty percent is "an aspiration." Regardless, by staking their reputations on college completion, KIPP and other No Excuses schools are rapidly approaching something of a "put up or shut up" moment. The attempt to write the playbook on what it takes to get first-generation low-income black and Hispanic kids into the world with college degrees in hand will offer something of a referendum on KIPP and the No Excuses model.
"All Hands on Deck"
To see KIPP's effort to steer its alumni to "right match" colleges, visit Pennsylvania's Franklin & Marshall College (F&M). A private liberal arts college with 2,200 undergraduate students, F&M was the first college to enter into a formal partnership with KIPP aimed at improving college persistence and graduation rates of KIPP alumni. In 2011, the school launched "F&M College Prep" and welcomed 23 KIPP students to the precollege summer-immersion program. The following year, the program tripled in size, adding students from Uncommon Schools, Mastery Charter Schools, Achievement First, and others. The three-week program is intended to give rising seniors from these schools their first taste of college life. Students take two classes a day taught by F&M professors, and attend workshops on college admissions, financial aid, and other topics—all intended to demystify college life.
The students from KIPP and the other schools "leave F&M and go into their senior year thinking, 'I can go to college. It's gonna be tough, but it'll be fine. I know what my resources are. I know how to talk to professors and upperclassmen. I know how to navigate the system,'" says Shawn Jenkins, who runs F&M College Prep as special assistant to the dean of the college for strategic projects.
F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City–based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another. According to the Education Trust, F&M graduates more than 87 percent of its students within six years, but only 70 percent of its black and Hispanic undergraduates. F&M staff had long observed that students who came to the Lancaster campus through Posse tended to graduate at a much higher rate than other minority students. Jenkins states the challenge succinctly: "How do we create a support structure that can mimic the same outcomes for KIPP students, for Mastery students, for Cristo Rey students?"
Once admitted to F&M, students from KIPP and other "first gens" are placed into a newly created mentoring program, based on the Posse approach. Students meet in groups of 8 to 10 with a campus-based mentor one to two hours each week. The mentor, who is the students' academic advisor, also meets one-on-one with each student at least every other week.
It is not an easy or natural transition to college for the students urban charters serve. Feeling comfortable enough to go to professors' office hours and not feeling out of place among other students are challenges to be overcome. "If students become academically integrated and socially integrated, their probabilities of being retained and graduated go up enormously," observes Kent Trachte, dean of the college.
Jenkins, himself an F&M alum (Class of 2010) and former Posse Scholar, describes the college's approach as "all hands on deck." But when it works, it is nearly invisible to the students. Indeed, Jenkins only recently came to see and appreciate "the intentionality" that made possible his own journey from a Harlem public school to a top liberal arts college and a career as a young college administrator. "I had no idea. I didn't know that when the doors were closed, people were sitting around talking about strategies to engage me to do better. That's what we're doing. There are certain students who need a little more attention," he says.
KIPP's partnership with Franklin & Marshall has clear benefits to all parties. A high percentage of F&M College Prep participants apply to the school, thus creating a pipeline of highly qualified, diverse students. KIPP sends its graduates to the kind of small private college that is statistically most likely to be successful with first-generation students. The students themselves get a "high-touch" approach from professors and advisors, keeping them in place and on track. F&M president Dan Porterfield knows them by name.
The 20 partnerships KIPP has entered into with colleges, including the University of Houston, Tulane, Morehouse, Spelman, Syracuse, Duke, and New York City's Hunter College, will improve KIPP's graduation rates by 7 to 8 percent "even if we did nothing else," says Barth. In a parallel effort, F&M convened a group of a dozen liberal arts colleges and CMOs that will form "the nucleus for a larger effort to connect some of the leading high performing charters to some of the leading liberal arts colleges," promises Trachte. Founding members of the coalition include Dickinson, Gettysburg, Bard, and Trinity.
No Excuses 2.0
No Excuses schools as a class have advanced our understanding of what it takes to get kids to college. The unresolved question is whether the students have what it takes to thrive once they get there. That question has some within charter networks openly questioning elements of the No Excuses orthodoxy.
At KIPP, at least part of the answer is more KIPP. "We've made a commitment to start earlier with our kids and stay longer," says Barth. As KIPP has expanded from 2 schools to more than 100, it has broadened its focus to include elementary and high schools. "Fifth to eighth grade, it's amazing what we've done," he says, "but we see the impact of being able to have them starting in kindergarten."
As of 2011, KIPP students' average SAT score was 1426; the average ACT score was 20. For the colleges KIPP is targeting for its alumni, "a 20 ACT ain't gonna cut it," Barth candidly admits. Increasing a student's odds of admission inevitably leads to a hard look at "backward mapping" curriculum and formative experiences from the earliest moment. "This is high stakes," says Barth. "As a 2nd-grade teacher, you are making this happen. What happens in your year ties to where they're going to be [in college]…everyone owns this chain. Everyone has a link."
Within the No Excuses world, a strong case can be made that YES Prep graduates are as academically ready for college as anybody. In 2011, the average SAT combined score for YES Prep African American students in reading, writing, and mathematics was 1556, far above the national average of 1273 for African Americans, and significantly higher than the 1500 national average for all students. Every student is required to take and pass at least one AP class in high school; most take two or more. Less than 5 percent of YES Prep grads require remediation in college. Getting admitted to a four-year college is a graduation requirement at YES Prep, which, like KIPP, has been admirably transparent about its college-completion rate, currently at 41 percent within six years.
"It wasn't the academic piece that was holding our kids back," notes senior director of college initiatives at YES Prep Donald Kamentz. "What we found hands down was it was the noncognitive piece—that tenacity, that grit—that allowed kids to harness those skills and persist when they faced difficulty." Kamentz and Laura Keane of Mastery Charter Schools have been at the center of an effort, along with Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania, to design and test interventions aimed at enhancing student perseverance and improving college enrollment and graduation outcomes. Kamentz cites the work of Stanford University's Carol Dweck as a key: students must be able to develop a "growth mindset" that creates motivation and productivity rather than seeing intelligence as fixed and immutable. "If they can work through that, their persistence through and graduation from college is off the charts," he observes.
This is not an entirely new development at No Excuses schools. Nearly fetishized, "grit" is as much a part of the culture of KIPP, Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and the rest as the college banners and teachers reminding students to "correct your SLANT" (Sit up straight, Listen, Ask and answer questions, Nod if you understand, and Track the teacher). The idea that character traits like perseverance, zest, and optimism have more to do with long-term success than even academics gained mainstream traction with the recent publication of Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed. Within No Excuses schools, some are starting to question some of their fundamental assumptions about what makes kids successful. When asked, Barth does not disagree with the observation that KIPP is "doubling down on grit."
"What we've found with the 'whatever it takes' or 'no excuses' mentality is that it was very teacher-driven and less student-driven," says Kametz, acknowledging this is a controversial line of thought in his own halls. A typical No Excuses approach might involve giving demerits or detention for missed assignments or turning in work that's not "neat and complete." Kamentz questions whether this tough-love approach helps create the self-advocacy in students they will need to be successful in college. "It's the largest gaping hole with our kids in college," he says. "They will constantly say, 'You structured my life so much that I had to do very little thinking and structuring myself.'"
"Academic preparation is absolutely foundational," says Jeremy Chiappetta, executive director of Blackstone Valley Prep in Cumberland, Rhode Island. "But what education looks like, to be truly prepared for college, probably is not the routinized learning that makes many of these schools, including us, really successful on standardized tests. I don't think that's the academic rigor that any of us want for college prep. I think it's much deeper, much bigger," he says.
Kamentz concedes that much more is known about what successful college students should look like than how to create them. "It's the inevitable practitioner question," he says. "I know all this stuff. Now what do I do?" Michael Goldstein, founder of Boston's Match School agrees. "We don't really know of many interventions that change grit significantly. It may be harder to change grit than other things like knowledge," he observes.
In Loco Helicopter Parentis
Not every college is prepared, interested, or has the resources to go the extra mile for low-income kids of color. The idea that once you arrive at college that you're here and should make your own way and figure it out "is still the dominant culture," says Barth, who compares colleges to joining a gym: "You get the money, and if the kids leave, they don't take the money with them." At present, he believes, the U.S. higher-education system simply isn't designed for the kinds of students KIPP and other No Excuses charters serve.
There is also at least a bit of cognitive dissonance that must be acknowledged: if KIPP and others are successful in turning out academically prepared, resilient, and optimistic graduates, shouldn't they need less support, not more, on college campuses? If students need an army of college advisors and KIPP staff to act in loco helicopter parentis, just how gritty can they be?
Barth sees no disconnect. If KIPP kids get "X" support on their journeys to and through college, he says, "middle-class kids get 50X," much of it simply baked into their lives in the form of educated parents who are not intimidated by college and financial aid applications. College tours, SAT test-prep help, and tutors? Been there, done that. There are siblings, relatives, and even consultants to advise kids on where to apply and what classes to take. The safety net is deep and broad. Perhaps most importantly, there is a baseline expectation among the children of the well-off and well-educated: they grew up simply assuming they would go to college. Middle-class kids, says Barth, get all this "without consciousness of it. It just gets done."
Back at UC San Diego, Rebecca Mercado acknowledges she was embarrassed to tell anyone she was struggling in school. "I felt that my teachers and even people from KIPP might be disappointed that I had allowed my grades to slip as much as they had." So just how hard has college been? After some mild prodding, Mercado sheepishly confesses her freshman-year GPA: 2.4. But this year it will be a 3.5 she insists. It's hard not to be convinced by the self-assured, confident-sounding college sophomore. Her commitment is admirable, earnest, and understandable. Gritty.
And if she struggles, there are any number of people who will be there to lend an ear, give advice, or point to resources. And why not? A lot of people, many of whom she's never met, have as much riding on Mercado's success as she does.
Maybe even more.
Robert Pondiscio is a former South Bronx 5th-grade teacher and executive director of CitizenshipFirst.
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All the grit in the world can't make up for the fact that kids who score below a combined 1550 on the SAT are not college-ready. Sounds like there is a lot of academic work needed in these no excuses schools before these kids can be expected to survive at competitive 4-year colleges. Maybe a 5th year of high school would do wonders?
It might have been helpful to readers if this article had also mentioned the high student attrition rate at KIPP and other No Excuses workhouses. That might throw a little cold water on their deceptive claims of miraculous college admission rates.
Being able to cream students on the front end, while counseling out other on the back end, is a sure-fire way to goose your statistics.
I'd echo Michael's concern from above. KIPP naysayers are constantly referencing the kids these schools counsel out because they're not the "right fit." I'm a big fan of Feinberg and Levin and their KIPP efforts but can their students honestly be compared demographically with traditional public school peers?
I'm a KIPP supporter and believe it's one of the best chances for the kids who fit. BUT here's what we know for a fact – KIPP has ways of screening kids for fit. An example, in DC KIPP won't take kids who are overage because they've been retained or they force them to withdraw when they don't meet their age requirements. Take a look at the DC KIPP application (it's online so an easy find) and the age requirements are right there. In my city, easily 10% of the middle and high school students have been retained at least once. There's no way to honestly compare KIPP performance to the traditional public schools or even to other charters where kids aren't screened out. So we need KIPP but we also need stronger public options for all kids.
Americans have become complacent with a segregated American School system. The public school system is more segregated today than before Brown Vs. Board of Education. If schools were integrated both by race and class there would not be such a broad gap in college enrollment. If KIPP really worked wonders it would be replicated to white and wealthy areas. Teaching kids to SLANT is not education, merely teaching marginalized students to stay quiet and do as they are told. One just has to look at the history of education and oppression in America to realize what is happening today with the current corporate education reform movement and the no excuses charters.
"After some mild prodding, Mercado sheepishly confesses her freshman-year GPA: 2.4. But this year it will be a 3.5 she insists. It's hard not to be convinced by the self-assured, confident-sounding college sophomore. Her commitment is admirable, earnest, and understandable. Gritty."
I wish Ms. Mercado well, but is the author really so gullible? He must know a college student's first year grades are a better predictor of her second year grades than her positive self talk.
Robert, thanks for the thoughtful article which along with the NYT article about the three students from Galveston just before Christmas is one of the best pieces I've seen on the issue of college completion for low-income students recently.
What strikes me in following this topic is that people tend to assume no structural change. In other words, we're writing about a problem that is deeply structural on both the demand and supply sides of the market without addressing the structure.
Like Mike Goldstein, I really hope that individual schools can improve students' non-cognitive skills in big ways, but we don't really know yet. And even if we succeed, the deck is still stacked against them — they just have a somewhat better chance of competing with the stacked deck and overcoming setbacks.
On the demand side, in addition to thinking about how we prepare individual students, we need to be thinking about two kinds of structural change (only the first of which is mentioned in the article):
1) Clustering students at the subset of colleges that do a better job of getting students to graduation. Posse does this, and some colleges (like F&M) and school networks (like KIPP) are trying to build on this strategy deliberately, but it needs to be more widely and aggressively pursued
2) Aggregating 'organizational' demand – rather than each KIPP or YES Prep building its own 'get through college' machinery and negotiating individual partnerships with colleges like F&M, the schools (esp. networks/districts) that are producing large numbers of talented low-income students should be aggregating their 'purchasing power' by creating a consortium that exerts its leverage on colleges. This kind of consortium could get more colleges to take the kinds of steps that F&M has by telling them that it will encourage its member schools' students to consider a shortlist that includes only colleges who do the right kinds of things. This kind of consortium could also provide some kinds of student support to member schools' alumni during college, rather than having all schools build their own alumni support functions.
Maybe even more importantly, we need the kind of entrepreneurship and new school creation on the supply side that we're seeing in the K12 world with charter schools, innovation/pilot schools, etc. We already have 4500 colleges but very few of them are designed (cost, support structures, flexibility of schedule, etc.) with low-income students' needs in mind. There are a tiny number of examples of this kind of from-scratch college startup (eg, Portmont College) but we need a lot more.
When the system is screwing students, let's look to the system as much as the students.
My advice to young college students:
1. Don't skip class
2. Get out the dorm to do your homework
3. Party no more than 2 nights a week, 1 preferably.
4. Hang with folks who do the same.
Said another way, do what you did through high school to succeed, and resist the temptations of young adulthood.
This is a thoughtful article. There are some simple facts that must be observed: the four average grad rate for all students is not acceptable; in the many first year college students of all social classes struggle; and students that must work during college get lesser marks.
On another note…
To pretend that traditional public schools do not sort, cream, and counsel kids out, while still getting lousy results, is beyond naiveté. KIPP schools are succeeding with kids that would fail in traditional public schools. To act as if these students are the "magic" ghetto kids and the ones left in the district schools are the wretched of the Earth is a simplistic defensive tactic.
And, the comment that if KIPP schools were so great they would be replicated in wealthy schools misses an important point: if wealthy students were three grade levels behind they would run to any school that caught them up.
[…] struggled to understand how to better support students in translating success at KIPP schools to success in higher education. Students and educators at KIPP commit to long days and weekend hours on campus every week. But […]
My colleagues and I developed and administered a
"school within a school" at New Trier West HS in
Northfield, Il during the 1970's. During its tenure of
seven years, we created an atmosphere of questioning,
resource utilisation and self-evaluation. The curriculum was focused on "experiential learning". Our emphasis was on self-direction and we think it worked. Students went to college possessing a great deal of "grit" because they had ample opportunity while still in high school to work out issues. Curriculum was not compromised, but it was not
teacher or test driven. Yes, ours was (is) a highly affluent community, but many students wanted more than just
a standard curriculum: they wanted a chance to grow
in decision-making and experience a more total education.
I remain unmoved by the critics of KIPP-student preparedness, particularly by who point to flagging SAT cums. The SAT is a weak evaluation of the ability to apply and create new knowledge. The very nature of interpretative analysis in the many fields can be changed by the perspectives and contributions of students from "underserved" backgrounds, such as KIPP students. In terms of the creativity that fosters new ideas, these students R-O-C-K!
My gut says, after working in a highly structured environment serving low-income children this past year, that there will be a steep learning curve when scholars will need to transition from having knowledge acquisition scaffolded for them to an independent and open-ended process of undertaking sustained inquiry for themselves. A scholar from a "no excuses" charter taking on responsibility for ordering his or her life is similar to the change a soldier who leaves behind the discipline of the military faces when he or she must find a new regime for his or her own life in lieu of the routine of the service. What gets KIPP graduates to the dance, hobbles them on the dance floor. While it is true that children from more advantaged economic backgrounds do receive more support over the course of their lifetime, much of that support in the best cases enriches independent thought processes and personal accountability, and this transfer of knowledge and habit begins many years before institutional schooling begins. The best parenting is not of the drop-in-to-manage-disasters-when-your-kid-drops-the-ball or plan-your-kid's-life-out-for-them-so-they-don't-have-to variety. KIPP schools work wonders in even helping as many scholars as they do graduate high school, but they can only do so much with longer hours and more intensity.
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KIPP, Aspire, YES, et al. fill a role. They fill more or less the same role that parochial schools did about 15 years ago. Comparing them to public schools which cannot exclude kids who do not fit their behavioral model is, of course, problematic, to say the least. This article does not do that explicitly, but it implicitly accepts that success is due to the school rather than to selecting out a group of students who are more likely to do well than most kids in their demographic group, something I refer to as an enclave effect and which G. Canada has called a Quarantine Model.
But, as you state, they are not as likely as kids from other demographic groups to do well.
The hard truth is that despite the hard work and dedication of a lot of educators, schools by themselves cannot solve this problem. What KIPP and others do is to segment the school population. From what I know about KIPP, they serve their segment fairly well, just like parochial schools did for decades prior to the advent of charters. And it is that segment of the population that they target.
The question is then whether this improves education overall. My guess is no, that the side effects of this model of segmentation are negative overall. I could be wrong and I don't want to diminish the efforts of people working in these schools. But I do know they are not the answer for everyone.
Two papers from the American Economics Journal:
(2) Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
Joshua D. Angrist, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters
Lottery estimates suggest Massachusetts' urban charter schools boost achievement well beyond that of traditional urban public schools students, while nonurban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. The fact that urban charters are most effective for poor nonwhites and low-baseline achievers contributes to, but does not fully explain, these differences. We therefore link school-level charter impacts to school inputs and practices. The relative efficacy of urban lottery sample charters is accounted for by these schools' embrace of the No Excuses approach to urban education. In our Massachusetts sample, Non-No-Excuses urban charters are no more effective than nonurban charters
(3) Getting beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City
Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer Jr.
In this paper, we collect data on the inner-workings of 39 charter schools and correlate these data with school effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected input measures—class size, per-pupil expenditure, teacher certification, and teacher training—are not correlated with school effectiveness. In stark contrast, we show that an index of five policies suggested by qualitative research—frequent teacher feedback, the use of data to guide instruction, high-dosage tutoring, increased instructional time, and high expectations— explains approximately 45 percent of the variation in school effectiveness. The same index provides similar results in a separate sample of charter schools.
Simple question: What percentage of students who start at a KIPP high school actually go on to graduate from a 4-year college?
A C in linguistics? Bravo! That was one of the hardest classes I've ever taken.
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