(by way of JimmyKilpatrick ) Subject: "60 Minutes" We should salute them!! FYI: CBS announced that the season premiere of "60 Minutes" will lead off with a story on KIPP Academy this Sunday, Sept. 19, at 7 PM. KIPP Academy, a charter school, boasts the highest passing rates on the Texas assessment test of any middle school in Houston. Its students score in the 81st percentile nationwide in math on the Stanford-9. It achieves these remarkable results with a student body that is 90 percent Hispanic and 95 percent low-income. KIPP has a sister school in the South Bronx with similarly outstanding academic results among low-income children. You can read about both KIPP-Houston and KIPP-New York in Casey Carter's Heritage Foundation report, "No Excuses: Seven Principals of Low-Income Schools Who Set the Standard for High Achievement": http://www.noexcuses.org/report/. --------------------------- Forwarded by Jimmy Kilpatrick EducationNews.org http://www.EducationNews.org ReadbyGrade3.com http://www.readbygrade.com k-12Science http://www.educationnews.org/science.htm .