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Articles by Richard Whitmire

Richard Whitmire is the author of several books, most recently “The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America.” Whitmire is a member of the Journalism Advisory Board of The 74.

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Articles by Richard Whitmire

New KIPP Scholarship Will Help College Grads At Risk of Being ‘Underemployed’

Whitmire: Elementary School Holds Answers to Male Education Crisis

Steep College Persistence Drop Latest Sign of COVID’s Severe Impact

College Enrollment Continues to Plunge

Spring College Enrollment Numbers Fail to Rebound

Whitmire: Why Miguel Cardona Could Help End the School Culture Wars and Reverse College Enrollment Plunge for Low-Income Kids

New Data: College Enrollment for Low-Income High School Grads Plunged by 29% During the Pandemic

New Data: Sharp Declines in Community College Enrollment Are Being Driven By Disappearing Male Students

KIPP Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Alumni Network to Help Its 30K Graduates With Careers, Mental Health and Finances

All States Now Required to Track Students’ College and Career Readiness, but Few Do It Well and Some Not at All

How the Common App, the College Advising Corps and an AI Chatbot Are Saving the College Dreams of Low-Income Students During the Pandemic

‘That’s Not a Gap Year. That’s Just Not Going to College’: COVID-19 Erodes Equity Gains of First-Generation College-Goers

Whitmire: Nonprofit, Smart College Advising Groups Quickly Moved Online During COVID-19 — a Very Good Thing for Low-Income, First-Generation Students

Whitmire: The Wave of Higher Ed Shutdowns Threatens American’s Progress in Getting Low-Income, First-Generation Students to and Through College

A High-Poverty High School in Tennessee Is Using National Student Clearinghouse Data to Fuel a Revolution in Smart College Counseling

74 Interview: National Student Clearinghouse’s Michele Gralak on Helping Schools and Districts Put Data to Work for Their Kids

Whitmire: With DACA in Danger at the Supreme Court, The Against-All-Odds Success of These Undocumented College Grads Deserves Its Own Hearing

A Program That Successfully Propels Low-Income Students to (and Through) College Starts Its Work Years Before High School

New Research Shows Some 1 Million College Dropouts Returned to School in the Past Five Years and Earned Degrees

Whitmire: Both Fans and Critics of Success Academy’s Remarkable Results Will Find Something to Like in Pondiscio’s New Book. But Don’t Use It to Judge All Charter Schools

Charters and District Schools Share Strategies on Getting Low-Income Students Through College, Putting Uneasiness Aside

IDEA Understands That College Is the New High School — For the Texas Charter Network That Means Making It Attainable for Everyone

The Magic Moment: College Signing Days Make Rock Stars out of College-Bound Seniors, Inspiring Those Waiting in the Wings

Whitmire: As School Districts Collaborate With Top Charters and Foundations, We’re on the Cusp of a Breakthrough in Guiding Low-Income & Minority Students to a College Diploma

Change Agent: From Georgetown to Franklin & Marshall to Aspen, How Dan Porterfield Is Leading a Revolution to Get First-Generation Students Through College With a Degree

The Pride of 2009 From Rural North Carolina Reflect on How Their Lives Were Changed by the Chance to Go to College

Whitmire: New Pell Institute Study Finds ‘Critical’ Gap in College Success Between Low- & High-Income Students. Here Are 3 Reasons for Hope

Uncommon Schools’ New President Julie Jackson Talks Community Circles, Transition Points, College Completion & Loving Our Students

With High School Counselors Badly Outnumbered, Innovative Nonprofit Steps In to Offer Smart College Advising to Low-Income Students Across the Country

Whitmire: Responses to My Media Column Show We Do Have an Issue With Education Journalists and Charter Schools — a Sensitive One That Requires Reflection (and Lots of Data)

How a Houston Experiment in College Counseling Is Succeeding in Sending Low-Income, First-Generation Students to the Country’s Top Universities

Analysis: Why the Media’s Pendulum Swing Against Charter Schools Has Consequences — and Why Journalists Must Keep Their Spotlight on the Trajectory of Students

A ‘Bot’ That’s Changing the Game for College Selection: Meet the Midwest Software Whiz Whose Program Is Now Helping Students Find Better Fits — and Earn More Degrees

The 74 Interview: Priscilla Chan on Supporting Whole-Child Education, Nurturing Diverse Scientists and Measuring Success Beyond Math and Reading

Expanding the Community College-to-University Pipeline: Why More Elite Schools Are Embracing Transfers and the 15,000 Annual Community Graduates With 3.7 GPAs

When It Comes to Predicting Which College Students Will Actually Go On to Attain a Bachelor’s Degree, High School GPA Is King

Alarming Statistics Tell the Story Behind America’s College Completion Crisis: Nearly a Third of All College Students Still Don’t Have a Degree Six Years Later

How Opening a High School on a Rural Peanut Field Altered the Arc of a NC Town — and Doubled the College Degrees in 5 Years

Whitmire: New Study of Suburban Charter Middle Schools Misses Point — Again — About Low-Income, Minority Charter Grads and College Success

New Numbers Show Low-Income Students at Most of America’s Largest Charter School Networks Graduating College at Two to Four Times the National Average

Whitmire: Elite Colleges Empower First-Generation Students to Succeed Just By Letting Them Enroll. They Must Admit More of Them

Analysis: How Bloomberg’s $1.8 Billion Gift to Johns Hopkins Will Elevate the National Conversation About Helping First-Generation Students Complete Their College Degrees

Whitmire: As Success Academy Graduates Its First Class of 16 College-Bound Seniors, Don’t Bet Against It Someday Being Thousands

Exclusive: Data Show Charter School Students Graduating From College at Three to Five Times National Average

Are High Schools Adequately Preparing Teens for College? No One Really Knows. That’s Why Today’s GreatSchools Analysis Is One of the Most Important Education Reports in Years

Whitmire: Decrying ‘One Size Fits All,’ Hickenlooper Lays Bare Democratic Party’s Deep Divide Over School Choice

Whitmire: Why Boston’s Most Racially Diverse School Could Also Be the Country’s Most Interesting School Integration Story

Whitmire: Want to Serve Student Interests in District-Charter Partnerships? New Study Advises Tackling the Adult Politics First

Analysis: Why Are All the Stories About Boys Falling Behind Girls at School Ignoring the Forces Keeping Them There?

Whitmire: 7 Ways Charter Schools & Districts Are Remaking Education in Texas

Whitmire: Finding Brave New World of District/Charter Collaboration in Rebirth of Newark Elementary School

Top Charter Networks Worth the Disruption, Set High Accountability Bar for All Public Schools

The Georgetown Scholarship Program: Getting First-Generation Students Acquainted With College Early On

KIPP Alumni Leadership Accelerator: Realizing the Belief That Its Graduates ‘Are Going to Be the Change Agents of the Future’

They Are Some of America’s Best and Brightest Students. They’re Hoping Congress Will Let Them Stay Under DACA

Green Dot Public Schools: Not Just About Getting Students Into College, but Getting Them Into the Right Ones and Keeping Them There

KIPP NYC College Prep: Tracking Students Through Graduation — and Then Through College — Like No One Else in America

YES Prep: At the Birthplace of College Signing Day, ‘Pumping Out Kids Prepared and Ready to Roll’

Alliance College-Ready Public Schools: AMPing Up Its Alumni Network to Track & Guide Students Through College

Noble Network of Charter Schools: It’s Not Just About Going to College, but About Global Perspective & Leaving Chicago

Whitmire: In the State That Created High-Performing Charter Networks, College Success Is Lagging Behind Others

IDEA Public Schools Proving the Impossible Is Possible in Guiding Texas Alumni Through College Graduation

Achievement First’s Ambitious Alumni Goal: 75% College Success Rate

How Uncommon Schools Is Guiding Alumni Through College Graduation: GPA, SAT Scores & a ‘Dirty Little Secret’

Exclusive: Data Show Charter School Students Graduating From College at Three to Five Times National Average

Whitmire: Money, Hustle & Good Candidates Won LA Vote for Ed Reformers, but Tougher Fights Lie Ahead

Whitmire: In Bridging Charter-District Divide, Educators Collaborate to Make the Impossible Happen

Whitmire: Is DeVos Still Planning a School Tour With Weingarten? Here’s the First Place They Should Go

Whitmire: Charter Leaders Saw Too Much Damage to Students (and Their Own Future) to Embrace Trump’s Budget

Whitmire: Why the Charter Cap Fight in Massachusetts May Have Sparked a Tidal Wave of New Parent Applications

Whitmire: Dear Secretary DeVos, If You Want to Grow Great Charter Schools, Do This, Not That

Schooling, Reimagined: How Dacia Toll Shaped the Greenfield School By Borrowing From the Best

Whitmire: Welcome to the Trump Presidency — and the Hazy New Battle Lines of the Education Debate

Building the 3.0 High School: How Summit Basecamp Schools Pairs Teaching With Technology

Inside the 2004 Denver Summit That Changed the Course of America’s Public Charter Schools

Whitmire: Partnering With Charters, AppleTree Plants Seeds for New Approach to Early Childhood Ed

A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: How 4 Visionary Entrepreneurs Joined Forces to Launch Uncommon Schools

A ‘Founders’ Excerpt: How Joel Klein Found His Disruptive Force — and Reshaped NYC Education