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Editorial: A Powerful Idea on Youth Violence

As a former beat cop, Ron Huberman, the new chief of public schools in Chicago, learned long ago that violence among young urban people could not be solved simply by hauling ever larger numbers of children off to jail. Full Article at The New York Times

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