Local group, Detroit Summer, is trying to revolutionize Detroit's public schools from the ground up

Detroit Summer is trying to fix the schools from the bottom up and giving students a unique way to have their voices heard.

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After “Chronicles of a Dropout” was released, the LAMP Summer Program of 2008 created three videos inspired by the themes raised in the previous year’s album, specifically cooperative economics, alternatives to criminalization, and respect. These videos developed solutions through participatory research with youth in the city and researched other places where similar solutions have been implemented successfully. 

This summer, LAMP is developing a curriculum around the videos in order to broadcast their ideas throughout the community and beyond. Detroit Summer’s LAMP project is revolutionizing Detroit Public Schools from the ground up, and giving Detroit students the unique opportunity to have their voices heard in a medium that sparks their interest and creativity.

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