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Issue #65 (March/April, 2004) issue cover

'Crack Babies': All Grown Up

Looking Back on the Crack Epidemic

They Called Me a `Crack Baby'

When students discover he can’t read, Antwaun is teased and called a “crack baby.” (full text)

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