Ever
since Rhode Island Education Commissioner Peter McWalters
intervened in Hope High School last June, the Providence school
has
come to be seen as a test case for urban educational reform.
This spring, Providence Journal reporter Marion
Davis and photographer Kris
Craig spent time inside Hope. The result is a snapshot of
a school in transition, as seen through the eyes of its students,
teachers and principal.
Nowhere
to go but up
Shirley DiMatteo steps into Norman Leach's seventh-period English class, puts her pile of beige, yellow and purple sheets next to a stack of Romeo & Juliet books, and waits for the room to get quiet.
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8.28.2003
Reformed Hope High makes debut After the second of three lunch periods at Hope High School, when the cafeteria
had emptied of teenagers buzzing with the loose-limbed energy of the first
day of school, resource officer John Carvalho flashed a big grin and crossed
his fingers.
