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From Homeless to Harvard – Disadvantaged High Schooler Beats the Odds
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Dave Halliday
David Boone is both smart and charming. If you see him now, you’d never realize that he’d been homeless through part of high school. But against the odds–including having to sleep on the streets some nights–he has excelled at math and science, earning him a spot at Harvard. “I promised myself I wouldn’t cry at…
Men Knitting? Watch this Inspiring Prison Education Program!
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Dave Halliday
As soon as they walk in the door, the students make a beeline for their knitting projects. Once they start knitting a pleasant calm falls over the room as the students settle into their work. These results would speak for themselves in any institution, but when the students are minimum security prisoners–and male prisoners at…
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