Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card

August. 19,2008

Rating：

7.1

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Woman Director

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Inside an inner-city Baltimore high school as teachers and students face the challenges of a 2002 education-reform act.

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