Word: grahamism
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...believe there is an over-enrollment of children of color in special education, and we don't believe they all belong there," says Afiya Graham, the school's executive director. "Our conviction is that we have intelligent children who are misunderstood and mislabeled...
...Graham identifies many of the school's 190 students as "children marginalized by Cambridge public schools...
...When you look at the demographics, these children are overwhelmingly African-American males, so the school began with a commitment that children can excel in math and science," Graham says...
...apply a strategy that ensures we cover the depth of the people," Graham says. "If we end up on African soil, we talk about everything--temperature, the equator, geography and the land...
...flacking in the world wouldn't have been able to catapult her memoir to No. 1 on the Post's best-seller list this week if she hadn't written a spectacular book, rescuing the art of autobiography from years of celebrity abuse. Graham produced her book the old-fashioned way: she wrote it herself. In describing the pain of being the ugly duckling among the beautiful people, and the struggle to transform herself from "doormat" to corporate mogul after her husband's suicide, Graham has mapped the heartache of being flawed and human and female. With the help...