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Military Models for Adolescent Education

April 17, 2007

Hugh Price senior fellow, Brookings Institution

Dorothy Stoneman president, YouthBuild USA

Robert Clark executive director, YouthBuild Newark

Ronald Ferguson faculty director, Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard

Hugh Price argues that the military has insights of great importance for helping low achieving and disengaged adolescents to succeed academically and in life more generally.

Ronald Ferguson, Kennedy School of Government lecturer in public policy, moderates.

Topics: Education

Tags: Achievement Gap | Military & Warfare | Classroom & Community | Family Issues | Professional Development

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