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Providence High School Works to Reform Itself

By Marion Davis
Providence Phoenix | August 7, 2004
In 1999, when Debra DeCarlo became principal of a Providence, R.I., high school, she faced with budget cuts, confused curriculum standards, a high dropout rate, truancy and disciplinary problems. She's made a difference, not so much in test scores, but in how students feel about learning.
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The Providence Phoenix, founded in 1979 as the New Paper, is part of the Phoenix Newspaper Group, which also publishes weeklies in Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine (see Boston Phoenix). With a circulation of 66,000 and more than 150,000 active...
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