Ivy Leaguers’ Class for Poor Becomes ‘Platinum’ Charter Schools - Bloomberg.com

This was written up in Outliers:

Ivy Leaguers’ Class for Poor Becomes ‘Platinum’ Charter Schools - Bloomberg.com:

"A 2005 study by the Educational Policy Institute in Virginia Beach, Virginia, found “large and significant gains” among fifth graders in KIPP schools nationwide on the Stanford Achievement Test, a standardized assessment used by school districts. The students scored an average of 9 to 17 points higher in reading, language and math, on a scale of 99 points, than they had the previous year elsewhere.

KIPP has an 85 percent college matriculation rate, compared with 40 percent for low-income students nationwide, according to a 2008 report card on the organization’s Web site"