Focus on Reading Produces a Philadelphia School That Really Works
Philadelphia
The third-grade students at Samuel Powel School in West Philadelphia took their spots in a circle on the floor and eagerly opened their books, anxious to resume reading Ballhawk, a story about a baseball team.
Their teacher, Joe Alberti, is 6-foot-7, and even sitting down he still towered above his young charges.
"Yesterday, you had a pretty tough vocabulary word," Alberti said, referring to "ball hawk." ''So I was hoping we could look at it and see...
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