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...Houston Field House was a bit of revenge for the Crimson...
...Paige is not without his critics. Some say the Houston district's gains on statewide tests have been boosted by an abysmal dropout rate, as underperforming students, under constant pressure, simply give up. A report published last month by Johns Hopkins University ranked Houston 28th in school completion out of the nation's 35 largest school systems, with less than half of ninth-graders at most of the district's high schools sticking it out through graduation. Says Guadelupe San Miguel, a parent with three children in the district and an expert on Hispanic education: "The high-stakes testing Paige...
Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...
...went to interview for a job as head coach and athletic director at Texas Southern University in Houston. The position offered a big step up in pay and prestige, but Paige also wanted a faculty assignment. Granville Sawyer, 81, then president of Texas Southern, recalls, "I was convinced by the end of our conversation that this was a great mind and a great educational leader in the making...
DIED. JOHN BIGGERS, 76, muralist who depicted African-American life; in Houston. In 1950, Biggers' work won first prize at an annual exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, but because blacks were permitted to visit the museum only on Thursdays, he could not attend the opening...