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...loyal customers. Like most school districts along the lower Mississippi, Vicksburg's had long hovered outside the orbit of education reformers. It was still largely segregated, and year after year its test scores stagnated. The schools were so overcrowded that at one building three teachers held class in the gymnasium at the same time. So parents took to voting with their feet. And their skin. Many white parents fled to private and parochial schools, while others began home schooling. Some black parents, convinced the schools in their neighborhoods were worse off academically, gave the district fake addresses in order...
Pappas' library has more than 13,000 books, and a new computer lab will open this fall. But the school has no gymnasium, no theater, no after-school clubs and no instrumental-music classes. Kids are required to attend mainstream schools if their families get settled. In practice, however, scores of children drift in and out of Pappas for years, partly because it's such a nurturing place. A student who shows up with dirty clothes will get new ones. There's a medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along...
...strong play on star guard Michael Jordan, Clemente found no openings, and scored only two points before fouling out in a 79-52 loss. He was equally ineffective the next night, and Princeton's Chris Young lit up Harvard for 30 points in a 73-55 win at Jadwin Gymnasium...
With these measures, the gymnasium campers were dispersed in time for the first basketball practice, but the crowding problem was still crammed into every part of Harvard...
...With these measures, the gymnasium campers were dispersed in time for the first basketball practice, but the crowding problem was still crammed into every part of Harvard...