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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 finis...

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 w...

[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 ...

That is much more intentional to help adults meet that developmental needs of children, it is important but anybody see in the wire on hbo . Great show. Maybe the best show ever. Truly. Lots of people say that but the reason i love that show there is lots of compelling characters but the primary character are the systems that are interacting in the city of baltimore and holding everybody prisoner the drug trade, public schools, and media, municipal government government, and police. We primarily see the way you can never hope to address education without paying attention to these other things....

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...