Summary: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jefferson Exchange – March 25, 2013, HOUR 2</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> <span class="headlinetext">The Road Out</span> </b><br><br></p><div>Education is a ticket out of poverty. Maybe. Teacher, writer and social advocate Deborah Hicks escaped her own childhood poverty to get an education at Harvard, and she set her sights on helping other girls escape to the right side of the tracks. Her teaching experience in a poor Appalachian town is detailed in her book <a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266490%22" target="_blank"><strong>"The Road Out: A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America." </strong></a> </div>
