Education: Something to Hope For

Something to Hope For During his first weeks on his new job, one question kept haunting Herbert Gragert, 34: Why had he ever left his pleasant position as school superintendent of Langdon, Kans. to take on such a strange assignment? Last June Warden Arthur Hoffman of Kansas State Penitentiary had persuaded him to take over the prison's faltering school for inmates; but there was no staff and the only facilities available were two small rooms in a storage area. Then one day Gragert suddenly realized that his project was a...

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