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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

This American Life Covers Schooling, Segregation

The July 31, 2015, broadcast of This American Life covers issues of schooling and segregation by race and poverty. The topic connects well with my discussion of Our Kids, so I want to share the link to the broadcast, "The Problem We All Live With." Find it * here.* 

 Nikole Hannah-Jones talks with Ira Glass about busing, integration, why segregation stopped, and why it might work again. 

 While there are many problematic aspects to the conversation -- a focus on improving schools rather than communities, favoring of white/black notions of diversity at the expense of attention to other enthicities, relying on test scores as a metric, to mention a few -- I still recommend it, especially if paired with a reading of Putnam's  Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. (Or braided with that book and Coates' latest Between the World and Me). 

 As well, *here's* some commentary on the broadcast from VOX.
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