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Richard Whitmire's THE ALUMNI

A new multimedia series about how America’s top charter school networks are working to support their alumni through college graduation, leading to a college success revolution for low-income students. Read the complete story, and see the new college graduation data, at TheAlumni.The74Million.org.

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Why America’s Top Charter Schools Are Looking Beyond the High School Diploma to Better Track and Support Alumni Through College Graduation

Steve Snyder

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

Barth, Feinberg, Levin — Measuring Outcomes Beyond High School: Why Schools Must Raise the Bar in Helping Students Attain Choice-Filled Lives

Richard Barth, Mike Feinberg & Dave Levin

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire

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

Richard Whitmire