When Grit Isn't Enough

When Grit Isn't EnoughBy: Linda F. Nathan Examines major myths informing American education and explores how educators can better serve students, increase college retention rates, and develop alternatives to college that dont disadvantage students on the basis of race or income Each year, as the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), an urban high school that boasts a 94 percent college acceptance rate, Linda Nathan made a promise to the incoming freshmen:

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an accomplished photographer and a former kindergarten teacher

But when the very people they thought they were supposed to help turn their backs on them

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When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found shot to death in his home in Portland

By: Ann Bausum     James Meredith's 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man's peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South's most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement

Will Ali be the one in danger this time

from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early

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and as unpredictable as America itself

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