Chicago’s Urban Prep Does It Again: 100 Percent College Acceptance

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From the time they enter Chicago's Urban Prep Academies, the young men are asked to wear red ties. They may change these ties only once: after they have been admitted into college. During this year's graduation ceremony, students who had achieved the honor were given new yellow ties with red stripes, a gesture to symbolize the hard work and dedication displayed in not only graduating from high school but also continuing to pursue education in one of the nation's toughest cities.
For the fifth year in a row, all of the graduating students at Urban Prep Academies' three campuses (pdf)—240, to be exact—donned new ties as the graduating class has again achieved a 100 percent acceptance rate into four-year colleges and universities.

"The tie represents, to me, moving on from a boy to becoming a young man and actually doing something with my life," graduating senior Dumar Harris told NBC Chicago.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke at the graduation Tuesday, and NBA star and Chicago native Dwyane Wade donated $10,000 through his foundation to help pay for the prom, NBC Chicago reports.

"I got into a lot of different schools, but right now I'm thinking about four different choices," student Keshawn Cathery told NBC Chicago.

"I got into Georgetown University, which I will be attending in the fall," student Derrick Little said.

The 2010 class, the first to graduate from the Chicago school, is on course to graduate from college.

"Being the first graduating class, you see a lot of progression, you see a lot of downfall, but everything comes just together. If you keep striving for that one goal, no one can tell you no," Urban Prep alumnus Paris Williams told the news station.

With its challenging curriculum, the public charter school has had some students leave the program because they weren't able to manage it. "Urban Prep is not for everyone, and those students may leave us," school founder and CEO Tim King told the news station. "But the fact that some students choose to leave us should not be used as a weapon against the students who have chosen to stay and have achieved this incredible accomplishment."

Chicago's Urban Prep Does it Again: 100 Percent College Acceptance - The Root


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[Hawaiian Punch]

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What you calling those two klan members for? They only show up when it's stories about black people killing each other. Stories like this are kryptonite to them.

 

[theworldismine13]

What you calling those two klan members for? They only show up when it's stories about black people killing each other. Stories like this are kryptonite to them.

Actually Urban prep is one of the main examples I use of why charters schools are important and why charters represent the future of black education, urban prep shows that the real solution is to deal with culture

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Actually Urban prep is one of the main examples I use of why charters schools are important and why charters represent the future of black education, urban prep shows that the real solution is to deal with culture

Be still my beating heart. Supporting positive change with a nationalist approach. Malcolm X would be proud.

 

[theworldismine13]

Be still my beating heart. Supporting positive change with a nationalist approach. Malcolm X would be proud.

I have no idea where people get the notion that I'm anti black, my ideology is black domination

 

[The Real]

One of the reasons they have a 100% acceptance rate for seniors is that their attrition rate is incredibly high. They lost almost 1/3 of their initial class from freshmen year to graduation, which is a massive loss. They force the lower performers out. This makes their actual graduation rate actually 6 points lower than the district average, which is not an achievement.

The other reason is that they refuse to graduate people who aren't accepted into a college, which naturally results in a perfect graduation/acceptance correlation. They can do this since they are a charter that sets their own requirements.

It's worth noting that their Chicago comp exam results are at 15%, which are far lower than the Chicago average of 23%. That means those that graduated barely made the cut, and that they struggled through HS, meaning they will almost certainly struggle through college and have a high dropout rate, which is the established patten of such students.

This is what happens when you focus on fluffing stats and leaving kids behind instead of on education.

 

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One of the reasons they have a 100% acceptance rate for seniors is that their attrition rate is incredibly high. They lost almost 1/3 of their initial class from freshmen year to graduation, which is a massive loss. They force the lower performers out. This makes their actual graduation rate actually 6 points lower than the district average, which is not an achievement.

The other reason is that they refuse to graduate people who aren't accepted into a college, which naturally results in a perfect graduation/acceptance correlation. They can do this since they are a charter that sets their own requirements.

It's worth noting that their Chicago comp exam results are at 15%, which are far lower than the Chicago average of 23%. That means those that graduated barely made the cut, and that they struggled through HS, meaning they will almost certainly struggle through college and have a high dropout rate, which is the established patten of such students.

This is what happens when you focus on fluffing stats and leaving kids behind instead of on education.

Or it's just a good school.

What the fukk is it with you people?

 

[theworldismine13]

One of the reasons they have a 100% acceptance rate for seniors is that their attrition rate is incredibly high. They lost almost 1/3 of their initial class from freshmen year to graduation, which is a massive loss. They force the lower performers out. This makes their actual graduation rate actually 6 points lower than the district average, which is not an achievement.

The other reason is that they refuse to graduate people who aren't accepted into a college, which naturally results in a perfect graduation/acceptance correlation. They can do this since they are a charter that sets their own requirements.

It's worth noting that their Chicago comp exam results are at 15%, which are far lower than the Chicago average of 23%. That means those that graduated barely made the cut, and that they struggled through HS, meaning they will almost certainly struggle through college and have a high dropout rate, which is the established patten of such students.

This is what happens when you focus on fluffing stats and leaving kids behind instead of on education.

I hope the 1/3 that washed out learned their lesson and do better in their next school and if a parent or student has a problem with the school's policies they are more than welcome to leave, that is the point of charters, school choice

I'm not sure what you mean by comp exam results are at 15%, what exactly is the 15% referring to and what is the liberal/marxist source for these figures?

 

[The Real]

Or it's just a good school.

What the fukk is it with you people?

So a school that spends 1/3 more money and several hours per day more than the average public school per student yet has a worse than average graduation rate and worse than average standardized exam results is a better school? Ok.

 

[bigDeeOT]

One of the reasons they have a 100% acceptance rate for seniors is that their attrition rate is incredibly high. They lost almost 1/3 of their initial class from freshmen year to graduation, which is a massive loss. They force the lower performers out. This makes their actual graduation rate actually 6 points lower than the district average, which is not an achievement.

The other reason is that they refuse to graduate people who aren't accepted into a college, which naturally results in a perfect graduation/acceptance correlation. They can do this since they are a charter that sets their own requirements.

It's worth noting that their Chicago comp exam results are at 15%, which are far lower than the Chicago average of 23%. That means those that graduated barely made the cut, and that they struggled through HS, meaning they will almost certainly struggle through college and have a high dropout rate, which is the established patten of such students.

This is what happens when you focus on fluffing stats and leaving kids behind instead of on education.

Voice of reason. I always figured something fishy was going on when I hear 100% graduation rate.

 

[bigDeeOT]

What you calling those two klan members for? They only show up when it's stories about black people killing each other. Stories like this are kryptonite to them.

Nope, I want to see black people succeed. I think we need to look at all success stories of black communities and try to pinpoint what exactly are they doing differently from other unfortunate black communities. We need to take full advantage of the pathway to success.

 

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One of the reasons they have a 100% acceptance rate for seniors is that their attrition rate is incredibly high. They lost almost 1/3 of their initial class from freshmen year to graduation, which is a massive loss. They force the lower performers out. This makes their actual graduation rate actually 6 points lower than the district average, which is not an achievement.

The other reason is that they refuse to graduate people who aren't accepted into a college, which naturally results in a perfect graduation/acceptance correlation. They can do this since they are a charter that sets their own requirements.

It's worth noting that their Chicago comp exam results are at 15%, which are far lower than the Chicago average of 23%. That means those that graduated barely made the cut, and that they struggled through HS, meaning they will almost certainly struggle through college and have a high dropout rate, which is the established patten of such students.

This is what happens when you focus on fluffing stats and leaving kids behind instead of on education.

http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2013&code=150162990010C_E.pdf
Urban Prep Chtr Academy Englewood High School -- Chicago Tribune 2013 Illinois School Report Cards

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nikkas just can't win man

 

[theworldismine13]

i was wondering what you were babbling about, so these are the actual stats

- Chicago Sun-Times

Only 17 percent of Urban Prep juniors passed their state exams last year, far lower than the district average of 29 percent. On the positive side, that beats the 8.4 percent passing rate in the neighborhood schools that Urban Prep kids would normally attend.

so actually urban prep has double the passing rate compared to the same students

 

[The Real]

i was wondering what you were babbling about, so these are the actual stats

- Chicago Sun-Times



so actually urban prep has double the passing rate compared to the same students

I don't doubt that, but again, when lower performers are dropping like flies, they don't show up in the stats. Public schools keep all the lower performers, so their results naturally look worse. Indeed, they also take all the kids who are pushed out of Urban Prep.

The question that needs to be asked is just how much of that extra 8% is the result of actual education, and how much is the result of stat fluffing.

We should also recognize that spending an extra 1/3 and several more hours per student starting in 9th grade shouldn't be producing such low gains for 12th graders in terms of these exams. They are still far below average, including those of public school students with less money and resources outside of those neighborhoods.

 

[theworldismine13]

I don't doubt that, but again, when lower performers are dropping like flies, they don't show up in the stats. Public schools keep all the lower performers, so their results naturally look worse. Indeed, they also take all the kids who are pushed out of Urban Prep.

The question that needs to be asked is just how much of that extra 8% is the result of actual education, and how much is the result of stat fluffing.

We should also recognize that spending an extra 1/3 and several more hours per student starting in 9th grade shouldn't be producing such low gains for 12th graders in terms of these exams. They are still far below average, including those of public school students with less money and resources outside of those neighborhoods.

you are making up standards, 15-17 percent is double the rate, so the extra spending and hours is doubling the rate compared to their piers, students from other neighborhoods are not their piers

as for the dropouts that is why we need more charters and less public schools