Frederick Douglass High School was the focus of an HBO documentary that showed Douglass to be representative of the country’s failing inner-city schools. The documentary, “Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child left Behind Report Card,” was filmed four years ago but it aired this summer.
Robert Balfanz, a research scientist at the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University, has been working the past year to improve Douglass. Balfanz is also associate director of the Talent Development Middle and High School Project, which is working to improve more than 50 of the nation’s high-poverty, urban schools.
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