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Brain Wars: Jose Barco
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Despite brain trauma, he pestered his doctors to declare him fit for duty
FRONTLINE explores and illuminates the critical issues of our times - from business and health to social issues, politics and war.
Video description: FRONTLINE spends a semester embedded inside Houston’s Sharpstown High School, a once notorious “dropout factory" that is part of an ambitious experiment aimed at turning around failing schools and cutting the dropout rate. A troubling and inspiring journey, Dropout Nation investigates the causes, challenges and potential solutions of a national emergency.
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