http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-md.middle24jun24,0,2020294.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
One hundred percent of students at KIPP Ujima Village Academy, a small charter school serving disadvantaged children in Northwest Baltimore, passed Maryland's eighth-grade math test, compared with 19 percent in a control group. Johns Hopkins University education researchers compared the achievement and economic status of KIPP students in four grades with a group of similar students at the four elementary schools that KIPP students transferred from. They found that the school turned chronic low-performers into some of the city's highest scorers on state assessments, while their peers in neighboring schools continued to lag behind. Students who spent just one or two years at KIPP and then left for other schools continued to do better than the students who had not been to KIPP at all.
Source: Baltimore Sun
Date: 06/24/2007
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