KIPP DC students spend twice as many hours on the basics, and it shows.
KIPP DC: Key Academy, a middle school in a poor neighborhood in southeast Washington D.C., is no model of racial integration. Last year it didn't have a single white student. This year it has one. But the absence of white pupils certainly doesn't hamper the progress of its overwhelmingly black, low-income students and isn't something the staff and students would seem to have the time to worry about.
