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This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Graduation marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next in everyone’s life. In 2006, the Microsoft High

https://vimeo.com/18641494] Very often when new government programs are implemented, it can take years for them to take effect. For example, Philadelphia launched a 10-year abatement program to boost a long decline in population in 1997.

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Some kids are just lazy. They don’t care. They must have bad parents. The stigma attached to truants and dropouts is

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo On a simple walk around some sections of West Philadelphia it’s easy to find vacant lots just sitting there seemingly begging

The first floor of the Nicetown-Tioga Library looks like any other library. Books are sprawled across the layout of the interior, conversations are kept to a mere whisper and “no cell phones” and “no talking” signs are posted along the walls. Upstairs is a completely different story. Sunshine spills into the large, white room where kids are partaking in an intense game of Dance Dance Revolution. A radio is blaring in the background and a group of kids are nosily playing cards in the far end of the room.