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This interview is with Bill Strickland, a community activist and social entrepreneur in Pittsburgh, who has started a network of adult educational facilities to lift people out of poverty in urban America. Having grown up facing the same disadvantage as many of his students, Strickland shows how to build schools to nurture citizens.
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Strickland, B., Ungar, M. (2012). An Interview with Bill Strickland: How Community-Based Adult Educational Facilities Can Lift People Out of Poverty in Urban America. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_7
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