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Podcast: Instructional Ecology
Episode: A Story of Failure
Description: Welcome to the second in our series of failure storytelling this season. And it’s got some incredible scope to it. Today’s storyteller not only tells his failure stories as needed, he has a published a short autobiography that unflinchingly describes the very difficult first half of his life.Hameen Shabazz, in our Academic and Career Advising unit, endured a turbulent and violent childhood. The public school system taught him little in the way of reading, writing and arithmetic and his failures in school gave way to great success selling illegal drugs. But that...