Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Efforts to increase literacy, decrease class size and train teachers to reach every student have put some local districts on a state list of schools with rapidly improving student performance, Capital Region school officials said Thursday.
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