deborah hicks what you do at duke first of all? >> guest: i have a couple of things that i do. i am part of their research into called social science research and that is a unit that is composed of people who're doing research in the social sciences and different disciplines. i do a lot of a lot of research and then i'm also a social entrepreneur so i direct a nonprofit the north carolina mountains called page, partnership for appalachian girls education in their work with appalachian girls in middle school and help them get educational opportunity and access. so i have a couple of different hats that i wear at duke university and researcher and now social entrepreneur. >> host: social entrepreneur. is that a new term? >> guest: atingua's point -- coined by people like nicholas kristof but it's a widely used term for people like me who basically direct non-profits and do different things in the nonprofit sector. >> host: how did you get involved with appalachian girls in middle school in western north carolina? >> guest: that is a long story that i write about in "the road out.

spin deborah hicks sat down at duke university to discuss her book than 10. in the book she talks about her efforts to transmit her love of learning and literature to a group of poor girls in cincinnati, ohio. the 30 minute is part of booktv's college series. >> booktv is on the campus of duke university endure of north carolina where we're talking with professors and scholars about some of their books. joining us here is deborah hicks. her book, "the road out: a teacher's odyssey in poor america." deborah hicks, what do you do here at duke, first of all? >> i have a couple things that i do. i am part of a research social institute and that is a unit that is composed of people who are doing research in the social sciences, different disciplines. i do a lot of research and then am also a special entrepreneur so i direct a nonprofit in the north carolina mountains called page, partnership for appalachian girls an education. they are i work with appalachian girls in middle school and help them get educational opportunity and access. i have a couple of different

. >> host: deborah hicks, how are these girls similar in outlook of life click >> guest: they are poorer. so they are among the very poorest of american children. i found out -- unless cincinnati in 2009. i came back to north carolina, as i said, too found this nonprofit. cincinnati in 2010 became the third worst city in the united states for child poverty and urban areas. only ferry to detroit and cleveland. this is one of the poorest cities in the u.s. for child poverty. part of that child poverty with appalachian poverty in the inner city. so while these girls were poor. many of them had moms who had drug issues. and poor white america coming to chart problem tends to be centered around the abuse of prescription painkillers like oxycontin would be an example of that. so i found out that many of my young students, some of them like eight, nine, 10 years old had moms who are doing drugs and now was a common factor among the girls. >> so how did that affect their outlook on life? their dreams as he said? >> for many of these girls, they were -- what i was discovering as a teacher for man

. >> deborah hicks said down with book tv at duke university to discuss her book. she talks about her efforts to transmit her love of learning and literature to a group of poor girls and cincinnati, ohio. >> book tv is on the campus some of their bucks. >> i am part of our research unit. it is a unit that compose the people who are doing research in the special sciences and social of bernard. partnership for appalachian gruels education. their i work with a bludgeon rolls in those help them get educational opportunity and access. have a couple of different hats. is that a new term? >> i think it was coined by a bear goes christoph. it is a widely used term. >> how did you get involved with up luncheon grows and middle school in western north carolina ? >> guest: it is a long story. i write about it in "the road out". i grew up as a working-class girl in that tiny, little miltown in the mountains of north carolina and was the first of my family to go to college, which was a big step for me. i ended up, there was scholarship for my group called auw, getting a sch

joining us here is deborah hicks. her book, trend seven -- "the road out: a teacher's odyssey in poor america." >> host: what you hear at duke first of all? >> guest: i have a couple things i do. i am part of a research unit caused social science research is due to and that is a unit that is composed of people with social sciences in different disciplines. i do a lot of research and hamas are a social entrepreneur, so i direct a nonprofit called age, partnership or appalachian girls education in there i work with appalachian girls in middle-school and help them get educational opportunity and access. so i have a cup of different that i wear it different universities and i social entrepreneur. post with social lunch winner? is that a near-term? >> guest: it was turned by nicholas chris doss, that it was a widely used term. for people like me who basically direct nonprofit and different things in the nonprofit sector. >> host: how did you get involved with appalachian girls in middle-school in western north carolina? >>

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. >> guest: >> guest:w >> host: we have been talking with educational scholar deborah hicks about herok the road out the teachers ought to se od. >>> we went through a lot. it's hard because i don't think that we remember what it's like. i think that we forget. and i have to give him credit because he says i didn't give up on him but he didn't give up on me either. we were really having a rough time and even in the present i remember he called and i told him okay. i told him why don't we just stop this nonsense. let's just stop it and change. that's not easy. you can't make it like a magic wand. i see what he's gone through and i know the terrible thing things facedhe isfaced with the abuse s from other guys. it was more neglect. his poor mother i want to give her credit because she stood by. [inaudible] she stepped up. so it's good to hear -- we went on a trip so that we could finally come to california. we drove away from chicago to california and it was one of the most beautiful trips. we came with our friend and we had a great time and i never argued with him once we just had a gr

. >> deborah hicks said down with book tv at duke university to discuss her book.e talks about her efforts to transmit her love of learning and literature to a group of poor girls and cincinnati, ohio. >> book tv is on the campus some of their bucks.