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Somehow would make the school 17% more likely to perform at a higher level. >> it doesn't. charters by themselves are not any kind of a cure-all. magic pill. but the highly performing charters, like the kip schools for instance, about 110 of them, it's the highly performing charters are schools that all schools can learn from. so what i'd like to see more of is sharing of best practices between those charter schools that are working and some of them don't work. many don't work. the ones that work, they have like 90, 95% graduation rates in very impoverished neighborhoods. these are terrific sc...

Parental involvement is the number one predictor of child performance in education without question. it is even a better predictor than the quality of the actual teacher in the classroom. so if parents understand how important they are, that's critical. there's so many different issues. we want to talk today in the "making the grade" segment we're going to do for two hours, talk about solutions. we hear people, politicians, all sorts of people talk about we need to do this, we need to do this, that, okay. what can people at home do to make a difference in america's public education system and ...

Battle creek, michigan, which helps fund these kind of schools. i want to get right to this. drew, your school started in 20 2006, currently serving students in grades five through eight and you guys outperformed the newark public school system. explain how you were able to do this in such a short period of time. >> more time in school and high expectations. our kids go to school at 7:30 all the way until 5:00 and go to school on saturdays and here during the summer, as well. more time and also what we tell them as soon as they get here. we tell our fifth graders as soon as they get here, they...