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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The New School 20140826

Hairdressing, training program. Host she is a young mother. Guess who she is a young mom, beautiful little girl. Every stretch she is doing quite well but there were some very rough patches. Host blaher . Guest blair is more difficult to talk about. Blair was a student who reminded me the most of myself, very precocious kid. She was a stephen king fan at first and began talking about stephen king. Her grandmother raised her said her vision was that blair would become a lawyer and she certainly have those talents. Blair dropped out of school and she dropped out in ninth grade. She couldnt finish high school and she ended up trying and trying to go back and get her ged and wasnt able to do that. Currently the last i checked in with her she was working the night cleaning job in an Office Building so Something Like a big urban
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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The New School 20140826

And because of that doing well and then i did not know how to give in or apply got a letter saying i had a scholarship because a Wonderful Group of women had given me a scholarship. Host how did you get connected with them . Guest i can remember. They probably heard about me through highschool someone said she can make it. Event then it was easy for me to excel and keep going then went on for graduate degrees. I went on to college but then i have come back and helped my own own people, the people who are my people, working class people so i feel like yeah i have had to give up somewhat who i was but now i can come back and i can help the people who are like me. But so were you treated with suspicion back home being the first to go to college . Is at the wrong word . Guest i think its a very prospective perspective word. I think that people like me who are kind of bookish poor workingclass kids people think shes a little bit diffe ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The New School 20140826

Is a huge thing in their favor, but they have not gone the way of their moms. They said to themselves, we want Something Better for our lives and we dont want to go there and they didnt. Host Deborah Hicks where do you think you were successful and where do you think you would do things differently . Guest i think we were very successful. We had an intimacy. We had a super successful class. We had seven girls who are attaching themselves to school, loving literature and loving books, loving a school like experience in the teacher. I think the biggest challenge i faced was just about the time that my class finished i had to leave to come back to my home state and found my nonprofit that i was thinking about founding. The biggest difficulty was not being able to kind of finish the class when the girls were entering adolescence. Thats why when i found my new i made sure we were ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140826

[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you might encounter in people for example of taking on line courses and i noticed harvard is starting an on line Course Program very recently so this is moving in th ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Road Out 20141214

Postcode tv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their book. Joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book, the road out the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. What do you do here at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of a researching occult social Science Research institute and that is the unit composed of people doing research in the social science and disciplined and i do a lot of research. Im also a social entrepreneur, so i direct the nonprofit called page, partnership for appalachian girls education. And there i work with appalachian girls in middleschool and help them get
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