EdWorks, a subsidiary of Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks that specializes in high school transformation, has been asked by the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners to help turn around historic Frederick Douglass Senior High School.
Frederick Douglass Senior High School, whose graduates include Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and entertainer Cab Calloway, was founded in 1883 as the Colored High and Training School and is the second-oldest historically integrated public high school in the United States.
For Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, a KnowledgeWorks board member who recently retired from his position as U.S. Circuit Judge for the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, being involved in the transformation of Douglass holds special meaning. In 1969, Jones became general counsel of the NAACP, a position previously held by Justice Marshall.
“I take great pride in being able to play a role in the resurgence of historic Douglass Senior High School,” Jones said. “We owe it to Justice Marshall who argued and won the historic case of Brown vs. Board of Education, and the other giants produced by Douglass to continue their legacy and produce learners who will make their own mark in the 21st century.”
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Congratulations EdWorks on helping to bring this historically important school into 21st century learning!