D.C.'s Own Cedric Jennings Shares His Story In New Book 'From Ballou High School To Brown University'. Also, In today's Wahington Post. Good article! We need more stories like this.
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A Success Story With Uncertain New Chapters
Cedric Jennings Went Far. Now He Asks, Was It Far Enough?
By Gabe Oppenheim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 26, 2008; Page C01
Full article link: www.washingtonpost.com
Book Description from the back of the book: "It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington, D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boast an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric has almost no friends. He eats lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through extra work he has asked for, knowing that he’s really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which is fully supported by his forceful mother—is to attend a top-flight college.
In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realizes that ambition when he begins as a freshman at Brown University. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and now tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work."
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