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...know we had, obviously, a real tough time with their guy," said Wildcats coach Walt Kyle, "and our guy was real tough as well...
Counselor Georgine Brown-Thompson remembers "empty PTA halls" before introducing HIP to Walt Whitman Middle School 246 in Brooklyn three years ago. "We've seen PTA attendance rise from five to 164," she says. The school was on the brink of financial ruin in 2001 when 127 parents opted for student transfers under the No Child Left Behind legislation. "Our school was being left behind," Brown-Thompson says. After HIP's introduction, 110 parents changed their mind, saving the school $1.3 million in funding it would have lost if the students had left...
After installing HIP, student test scores at Walt Whitman rose 20%. Karrol-Lee Richards, a seventh-grader, says HIP helped improved her grades from C's to A's. "I log in about four times a day to get advice from the teacher," says Richards. Keys plans to further HIP's reach by allowing students to interact with one another as well. "I just wanted a phone person and a computer person to be able to talk," says Keys. So far, HIP has been a conversation starter. --By Peter Bailey
...HAILS AT SEA By Walt Holcombe HAILS AT SEA collects Holcombe's Eisner-winning graphic novel, THE KING OF PERSIA, stories from his Fantagraphics series, POOT, and additional rarely seen and new short pieces. (July...
...Drawn & Quarterly ** WALT & SKEEZIX By Frank King, edited and designed by Chris Ware The first of a multi-volume collection of Gasoline Alley strips, each of which will have biographical information, photographs and sketches from King's estate that detail the story of this great forgotten American artist. (June...