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'Phillips County'

Shower truck, other resources available in Helena-West Helena as water crisis drags on

A shower and a fresh load of laundry could be in the near future for residents in Helena-West Helena, but the water outage could continue for some time.
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Mr. Gazette: The story of Sharpe Dunaway

Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to his sidelines: politics, writing and state promotion.
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More meditation than memoir: A review of J. Chester Johnson's "Damaged Heritage"

If we truly wish to go beyond the project of personal reconciliation and create the structures we need for an equitable and just world, we are going to require a deeper understanding of the nature of evil than the one Johnson offers here.

KIPP: Delta receives $500,000 from Walton Foundation for public-charter partnership

The "KIPP Through College” program places college counselors in Helena-West Helena's Central High School (which is just down the road from KIPP's campus in Phillips County) as well as Marianna High School in nearby Lee County.
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Surprises when schools ranked by test scores AND poverty

I wrote yesterday about what I thought was inordinate attention given by both the University of Arkansas school reformers and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to a statewide ranking of every school in Arkansas according to its composite score on the Iowa Test, a national standardized test.
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