School’s Success Gives Way to Doubt
by Adam Nossiter
MiShawna Moore has been a hero in the worn neighborhoods behind Charleston, S.C.venerable mansions, a school principal who fed her underprivileged students, clothed them, found presents for them at Christmas and sometimes roused neglectful parents out of bed in the nearby housing projects. As test scores rocketed at her school, Sanders-Clyde Elementary, the city held her up as a model. Somehow, Ms. Moore had transformed one of Charleston’s worst schools into one of its best, a rare breakthrough in a city where the state has deemed more than half the schools unsatisfactory. It seemed almost too good to be true. It may have been.
The New York Times, 10/30/2008