Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of EducationBEYOND THE BRICKS follows African American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system. Fifteen yearold Shaquiel is a bright student who enjoys writing poems and playing the trumpet, but finds himself a ward of the court system when he can longer take the chaos of his local high school and stops going to class. Erick, a nineteen yearold high school dropout, realizes that the freedom he