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Chapter on KIPP in new Malcolm Gladwell book “Outliers”

By tdesimon on January 26th, 2009

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.

To learn more about his book visit his website or order it Amazon.

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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