KIPP schools are “no excuses” public charter schools mostly for disadvantaged kids from impoverished neighborhoods of our inner cities. In regard to raising kids’ achievement in class the KIPP program of tough love, including longer school days and a shorter summer vacations, has been enormously successful. Malcolm Gladwell in his new book, the Outliers, sees [...]
Archive for January 3, 2009
A ‘Chinese’ work ethic in American inner cities
January 3, 2009On the importance of hard work
January 3, 2009“No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich. (Malcolm Gladwell citing a Chinese aphorism in Outliers, 2008)
