No Shortcuts Ira Carnahan, 11.10.03 KIPP DC students spend twice as many hours on the basics, and it shows. KIPP DC: Key Academy, a middle school in a poor neighborhood in southeast Washington D.C., is no model of racial integration. Last year it didn't have a single white student. This year it has one. But the absence of white pupils certainly doesn't hamper the progress of its overwhelmingly black, low-income students and isn't something the staff and students would seem to have the time to worry about. They're too busy working long hours on the basics. At KIPP DC students...