Word: prothrow
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...gather a personal history, which often reveals that a pattern of academic decline began with some crisis: the death of a parent, an episode of sexual abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young...