Word: cinders
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dumas is a 100% black inner-city public school, the kind of place that has an appalling reputation. By all rights, things should be just as bleak inside the scarred cinder-block building as outside. But there are no graffiti on the walls, no violence in the halls. Attendance thus far this year is an astonishing 94%, and there are 70 students on a waiting list to get in. "Black parents who bused their kids are coming home," says Peters, 52, a no-nonsense veteran educator who will begin her seventh year on the job in January...
...joined the half of our group that worked on the clinic project, adding a 1400 square foot addition to a health center that offered low-cost medical care to poor residents. When we arrived, all that stood on the site was a ring of cinder blocks surrounding a sea of mud. When we left, the floor and walls were built and the roof was half completed...