Breaking the Cycle

How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges

By: Nancy Brown Diggs

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Hardcover | 24 October 2013

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166 Pages

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Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by the pernicious factors of their environmentâ"drugs, violence, fatherless homes, and poor educational backgroundsâ"students at the Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All are headed for college, from which the vast majority will graduate.

The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail. It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of what âDECAâ does and save a generation mired in despair.

Americaâs failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak pictureâ"and it isâ"this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

For more information on the book, including interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.

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With Breaking the Cycle, Nancy Brown Diggs has provided eloquent, powerful, and stimulating analysis of the troubles in our neighborhoods and the people assiduously working with interest and clear thinking to effectively protect them. Reading this book is recommended since it offers some hope to the hopeless.

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