It's the most detailed look at one of the country's leading education reforms, the Essential Schools Movement, and its founder, Dr. Theodore Sizer. It takes time and hard work, but it is being done. In fact, starting over will be every worker's job, at some point. The average person has to go job-hunting eight times during his or her life. The average person will change careers at least three times.
People can and do change careers at all ages.
In the Crossfire opens with the heartbreaking story of Frances Davis. He became the third, and last, of her sons to die in street violence. All of them. Beginning with the Davis' family story, Merrow follows the trail of violence, interviewing both victims and offenders along the way. Looking for a remedy, the program profiles the efforts of community activists involved in the search for solutions.