Baltimore?s Eager Street Academy no ?ordinary setting? for juvenile education

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There?s a trailer in a courtyard off Eager Street where vocabulary words adorn the classroom walls and college brochures pile up on a spare desk. Charles Dugger weaves history lessons into his literature classes here; students have talked about a William Faulkner short story beneath the poster of Malcolm X.

Four teenage boys looked up from their worksheets recently as Dugger led a classroom tour. They were tall and lanky and slightly distracted ? nothing overtly unusual but for their green inmate jumpsuits.

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