Archive for August, 2008
Inspiration and Struggle
In the 1980’s homelessness was “the issue”. In recent years homelessness has faded from the national dialogue (however, the issue of homelessness was again in the spotlight briefly this past Fall and Winter when the national press picked up stories about of the rise of homelessness among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans). And, while the [...]
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This weekend I watched Hard Times at Douglass High, an HBO documentary that chronicles a year at Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore (one of the oldest historically black high schools in the nation) as Douglass struggles to meet AYP under the No Child Left Behind act. As you can tell from my previous post, I [...]
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