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Chicago's Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

  • Written by Chezare A. Warren, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Michigan State University
Despite being known for high college acceptance rates, Urban Prep Academies recently lost a charter to operate a school on Chicago's west side.Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher at what was to become the nation’s first all-boys public charter high school, the school’s faculty...

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