RESOURCES FOR INNER CITY CHILDREN

RICH is dedicated to providing high-quality educational resources, free of charge, to inner city schools in Washington, D.C. RICH operates from a pedagogical foundation that the greater a student’s academic need, the more important the experience of the teacher. RICH’s professional instructors have an average experience level of twenty years.

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RICH’s MATHLETES PARTICIPATE IN MOODY'S MEGA MATH CHALLENGE

Moody's Math Challenge

Four students of the Capitol Hill campus of the Cesar Chavez Public Policy Charter High School participated in the Moody’s Mega Match Challenge on Saturday, March 6. These students were led by Paul Penniman, executive director of RICH. The four students are part of RICH’s MATHletes program.

RICH’s MATHletes program targets the best math and science students at Chavez and enriches their curriculum with topics to help prepare them for a rigorous college program.

What if I told you that Washington, D.C., is known as a dropout factory, with just 49% of our youth graduating from high school and fully half of these dropouts ending up in jail?

Resources for Inner city CHildren wants every student to achieve academic success, graduate from high school, become a productive adult and live up to his or her potential.

This year, RICH's seventeen education professionals will provide over 2,000 hours of instruction and mentoring, free of charge, to the students and teachers of the Maya Angelou Public Charter Schools and the César Chávez Public Charter School for Public Policy. Encouraged by the positive results in these inner city school communities, RICH is committed to expanding these services in the coming years.

RICH is also a source of information for all Washington-area residents, professionals and non-professionals alike, who want to advance the educational development of inner city children. RICH also coordinates with organizations that provide tutoring services, psychoeducational testing, college counseling, advocacy, occupational therapy and other educational resources.

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Participate in our Adopt-a-Student program and receive updates on your student’s progress throughout the year. Or donate to our annual fund and help support RICH’s mission to increase high school graduation rates. All donations are tax-deductible. Learn More …

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY EVALUATES RICH

Two two-person teams from George Washington University's graduate school programs are evaluating RICH's programs. One team will evaluate the social return on investment from RICH's high retention (non dropout) rate by comparing the population RICH has served over the years at its partner schools to the students at RICH's schools but whom RICH does not serve. The other evaluation team will focus on one year of RICH's programs, 2008-09, and compare grades, attendance, and standardized test scores of RICH's students against the same data of the students at RICH's schools but whom RICH does not serve.

RICH STUDENTS EXCEL ON TESTS
Sixty-three percent of the 10th graders at the Cesar Chávez School-Capitol Hill scored “proficient” or better on the recently released DC-CAS (Comprehensive Assessment System) tests. These students have been attending RICH’s Saturday Math Academy at Chávez for the past two years. Only 32% of the previous tenth-grade class scored at “proficient” or better. RICH’s Saturday English Academy was also partly responsible for 57% of the 10th graders this year scoring “proficient” or better on the reading DC-CAS, compared to 31% for the 10th grade in 2008. The two increases in reading and math were two of the three largest increases of all the high schools in Washington, D.C.