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[quote=Anonymous]I bet she was exhausted from hearing National Prep's excuses. Ten years ago, National Prep was a nice idea, but it was never realistic.  They claim the metrics aren't fair to their students. But that doesn't explain why other schools whose kids are just as black and at-risk do much better.

FWIW, the founder is certainly motivated, but that's not enough to get 250+ kids to actually enroll, attend, and graduate college.

From 2017 interview with Howard U. 
Ross called the whole curriculum “high-functioning” but admits raw data shows that students—many of whom read at a fifth-grade level—don’t perform well. So, she prefers to look at the growth data, which she said shows the school is consistent with increasing reading and math scores.

Ross envisions National Prep being around well beyond her years with a plethora of endowment funds. She wants to open four more campuses, in cities like Detroit; Chicago; West Palm Beach, Florida; and a part of North Carolina. She wants beautiful buildings, like the ones at Georgetown
Day School and Sidwell Friends School, with swimming pools and tennis courts, too.
“They shouldn’t have to cross the [Potomac] River to have that opportunity,” she said.[/quote]

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