A Year Of Love And Struggle In A New High School

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Too many young, black men struggle in America's education system. Washington D.C. is trying to do something about it with a new, boys-only high school. NPR's Cory Turner and Education Week's Kavitha Cardoza spent hundreds of hours there, reporting on the birth of a school built on one word: Love.

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0:57.0	It's February 2017. We're in a pretty typical high school classroom.
1:02.5	There's college penance on the walls, whiteboards, that whole thing, but we're not in class.
1:08.4	We're in a circle with several black men all in ties, sitting in chairs,
1:13.4	ones of school psychologists, one is a social worker, one is a counselor.
1:17.0	And there's a woman in the circle named Tamara.
1:19.5	She's got a box of tissues on her lap and the reason for the tissues, her 16 year old son.
1:26.0	I mean, I'm really scared for it.
1:28.0	Really scared.
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