Why are boys being left behind in education?
Maybe they’re bored. Maybe it’s because less than 1 in 10 elementary school teachers are male. Whatever the reason, or maybe for all these reasons, Ali Carr-Chellman has a brilliant idea. Why not use video games in education? Carr-Chellman, a third-grade teacher turned “instructional designer”, describes better games, decompressing curriculum, changing what we accept in education, and putting more funds behind educational gaming.
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KIPP, the Knowledge is Power Program, is a wildly successful venture to better educate kids from underserved communities. 80% of KIPP’s students come from low income families, and 95% are African American or Latino. KIPP started when two teachers, fresh off their Teach for America service, decided to teach in a new way. They formed the first KIPP school, KIPP Academy in Houston. Soon after they partnered with the founders of Gap, Inc. to continue the growth of KIPP.
The results are enormous. In California for 2009-2010 school year, for example, the 7th graders in the Los Angeles region KIPP schools received a 67 proficiency rating for language arts on their standardized tests, far above the 38% students from the Los Angeles Unified School District received. In the Bay Area, KIPP high school freshmen rated an 85% on the same test, as opposed to the local district average rating of 47%.
Independent researchers are singing the praises of KIPP as well. SRI International researched the San Francisco Bay Area KIPP schools, and published a highly favorable report saying, “”Bay Area KIPP students make above-average progress compared with national norms, and they outperform their host districts.”
This video says it all:
From Yale School of Management
“The art of the possible” was the main subject on Earth Day at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Yale’s inaugural Green Summit on April 22. Business, academic and world leaders met on Earth Day to discuss the developing aspects of green business. In addition, several companies displayed new green initiatives in celebration of Earth Day, including UPS with its green fleet.
You can watch the presentations here.
More information from Yale here.
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