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Raising Kings: A Year of Love and Struggle at Ron Brown College Prep

October 16, 2017 1:11
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The students at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School are 鈥渒ings.鈥 All freshmen. All young men of color. All determined to change the dominant narrative about young black men in Washington: too many read below grade-level and won鈥檛 graduate high school. This new public school in Washington D.C. opened its doors in August 2016 and is radically different. Not just because it is a public school for boys, but because it鈥檚 designed specifically to meet the needs of D.C.鈥檚 young men of color. The school鈥檚 principal and the majority of its teachers are black men. They begin each morning in a schoolwide circle, navigating conversations that include neighborhood violence and police shootings, protest and poverty. Many schools do one or two of these things, but few do them all 鈥 and with the conviction of Ron Brown鈥檚 staff. For the past year, through a partnership between 澳门跑狗论坛 and NPR, we visited Ron Brown weekly -- and some weeks, daily -- to witness the birth of this new school and to see how its staff tackles some of the toughest challenges in education today. We spent hundreds of hours there, from the earliest days to the last bell. Filmed by Swikar Patel and Erin Irwin Edited by Deanna Del Ciello Interviewed by Kavitha Cardoza and Cory Turner Photos by Jared Soares and Kavitha Cardoza

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