Students revel in Alvin Ailey dance education.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)

The Christian Science Monitor | May 10, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Stacy Teicher Khadaroo Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Stiff horsemen look down from a white frieze outlining the auditorium walls at William Barton Rogers Middle School in Boston. Below, knees are flapping and feet are kicking. Laughter punches into the air as a hip-hop song pumps out of the stereo. For a glorious hour and a half, 40 seventh-graders are released from the confines of their desks into a realm where they have so much fun, they barely notice how much they're learning.

The teachers can see it, of course. "It's amazing - ...

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