Title: 
Headings: 
Chasing
 
Success
 

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ACADEMIC
 
VOC;
 
%~~~,ULARY
 

(o-kyoom'yo-lat')
 
v.
 

(o-pre'she-a'shon)
 
n.
 


 
 
E
 
 
to
 

Marita's
 
Bargain
 

60
 
schools
 
mirrored
 
the
 
long
 
and
 
chaotic
 
schedules
 
of
 
the
 
children's
 
working-class
 
parents.
 
The
 
reformers
 
wanted
 
to
 
make
 
sure
 
that
 
all
  

Look
 
at
 
the
 
first
 
column.
 
The
 
students
 
start
 
in
 
first
 
grade
 
with
 
130
 
 
meaningful,
 
but
 
not
 
overwhelming,
 
differences
 
in
 
their
 
knowledge
 
and
 

inviolate
 

rl-
 

counterintuitive
 
          
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KIPP.
 

COLLABORATIVE
 
DISCUSSION
 
Are
 
KIPP
 
students
 
different
 
from
 
other
 

PERFORMANCE
 
IASK
 

Critical
 
Vocabulary
 

Vocabulary
 
Strategy:
 
Context
 
Clues
 

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Content: "Our
 
kids'
 
reading
 
is
 
on
 
point,"
 
said
 
David
 
Levin,
 
who
 
founded
 
KIPP
 
with
 
a
 
fellow
 
teacher,
 
Michael
 
Feinberg,
 
in
 
1994. "They
 
struggle
 
a
 
little
 
bit
 
with
 
writing
 
skills. But
 
when
 
they
 
leave
 
here,
 
they
 
rock
 
in
 
math." There
 
are
 
now
 
more
 
than
 
fifty
 
KIPP
 
schools
 
across
 
the
 
United
 
States,
 
with
 
more
 
on
 
the
 
way. The
 
KIPP
 
program
 
represents
 
one
 
of
 
the
 
most
 
promising
 
new
 
educational
 
philosophies
 
in
 
the
 
United
 
States. But
 
its
 
success
 
is
 
best
 
understood
 
not
 
in
 
terms
 
of
 
its
 
curriculum,
 
its
 
so
 
teachers,
 
its
 
resources,
 
or
 
some
 
kind
 
of
 
institutional
 
innovation. KIPP
 
is,
 
rather,
 
an
 
organization
 
that
 
has
 
succeeded
 
by
 
taking
 
the
 
idea
 
of
 
cultural
 
legacies
 
seriously. In
 
the
 
early
 
nineteenth
 
century,
 
a
 
group
 
of
 
reformers
 
set
 
out
 
to
 
establish
 
a
 
system
 
of
 
public
 
education
 
in
 
the
 
United
 
States. What
 
passed
 
for
 
public
 
school
 
at
 
the
 
time
 
was
 
a
 
haphazard
 
assortment
 
of
 
locally
 
run
 
one-room
 
schoolhouses
 
and
 
overcrowded
 
urban
 
classrooms
 
scattered
 
around
 
the
 
country. In
 
rural
 
areas,
 
schools
 
closed
 
in
 
the
 
spring
 
and
 
fall
 
and
 
ran
 
all
 
summer
 
long,
 
so
 
that
 
children
 
could
 
help
 
out
 
in
 
the
 
busy
 
planting
 
and
 
harvesting
 
seasons.