Last year, I watched an intriguing television programme about a radical educational experiment in a deprived neighbourhood of New York. A black professor of economics explained his own journey from the ghetto to academic success at Harvard and also his radical experiment in educational rescue.
For the schools he was working with, the statistics were as depressing as they were familiar, with only a small proportion of students actually completing school and boys landing in the morgue more often than college.
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