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by Patrick Michels

King’s Gambit

Daniel King's quiet mission to transform public education in South Texas.

Mon, Sep 14, 2015 |

The early college movement is growing fast today — a free head start on higher education is especially alluring in a time of boundless student debt — and Da...Read More

A Quiet Revolution

Fri, Apr 14, 2000

It doesn’t look like the site of a revolution – even a quiet one. As self-effacing, middle-aged principal Salvador Flores stands in the doorway of fifty...Read More

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