[k12] School Ups Grade by Going Online

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School Ups Grade by Going Online

Until last year, Walt Whitman Middle School 246 in Brooklyn was
considered a failing school by the state of New York. But with the help
of a program called HIPSchools that uses rapid communication between
parents and teachers through e-mail and voice mail, M.S. 246 has had a
dramatic turnaround. The premise behind "HIP" comes from Keys Technology
Group's mission of "helping involve parents."

The school has seen distinct improvement in the performance of its 1300
students, as well as regular attendance, which has risen to 98 percent
(an increase of over 10 percent) in the last two years according to
Georgine Brown-Thompson, academic intervention services coordinator at
M.S. 246. Brown-Thompson added that HIPSchools, now entering its third
year at M.S. 246, helped remove them from a state list, Schools Under
Registration Review, where it had been for three years. In late 2000,
M.S. 246 was on the brink of being taken over by a private company
because it was not meeting state standards for academic performance.

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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65266,00.html


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