TEAM Charter Schools

Malcolm Gladwell, who regularly contributes writings to The New Yorker and published several books, including the best-seller The Tipping Point recently released Outliers, The Story of Success. In his new book he says:

The KIPP program represents one of the most promising new educational philosophies in the United States.

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An outlier is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience… I’m interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August.

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January 26, 2009
By Bill Gates
www.gatesfoundation.org

It is invigorating and inspirational to meet with the students and teachers in these schools and hear about their aspirations. They talk about how the schools they were in before did not challenge them and how their new school engages all of their abilities. These schools aim to have all of their kids enter four-year colleges, and many of them achieve that goal with 90 percent to 100 percent of their students. Every visit energizes me to work to get most high schools to be like this [view article . . . ]

The new science lab, recently completed in the exciting Rise Academy basement reconstruction, is ready for next year’s students. Final touches are being completed elsewhere in the project.

The new basement will house Rise Academy’s first eighth grade class. TEAM Schools typically begin with one grade, adding one grade level each following year until reaching capacity. Rise Academy will do so next year with 360 students in it’s campus at 21 Ashland St.

Below are some pictures of the recent reconstruction. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to such a necessary and exciting project.

May 2008

January 2009

Congratulations to all the hard-working students who received honor roll this trimester. The event was well attended by both staff and parents.

Thanks to everyone who made plans to support our athletes today. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has not been so kind to us and has forced us to cancel all of our events this evening. When we reschedule these events, we will be sure to let you know.

Please check our calendar for future basketball games and rescheduling.

Monday, January 12, 2009
By JOEL I. KLEIN and AL SHARPTON
The Wall Street Journal

It is not acceptable for minority students to be four grade levels behind.

Dear President-elect Barack Obama,

In the afterglow of your election, Americans today run the risk of forgetting that the nation still faces one last great civil-rights battle: closing the insidious achievement gap between minority and white students. Public education is supposed to be the great equalizer in America. Yet today the average 12th-grade black or Hispanic student has the reading, writing and math skills of an eighth-grade white student.

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