As we celebrate the one year anniversary of Room to Run, holding kids to high academic standards—while also preparing them for the challenges they’ll face in college and beyond—remains as important as ever. Today we revisit Shatavia Knight and the other students in Art Worrell’s class at North Star College Preparatory High School in Newark, as they learn about our country’s history of social progress—and the relevance of that history today.
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