Jerome Eisenberg is suing a $50,000 per year private school in Los Angeles that kicked his daughter out after he complained about their “racially divisive” curriculum. In the wake of the George Floyd uprisings, the school replaced classics like “Lord of the Flies” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” with books such as antiracist activist Ibram X. Kendi’s “Stamped” a ... Show More
May 2021
Can We Finally End School Segregation?
<p><span>By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicled the efforts of one small school district, Sausalito Marin City School ... Show More
49m 1s
Aug 2023
Jennifer Keys Adair and Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, "Segregation by Experience: Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students’ fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students’ ideas in ways that make learning collaborative--but not all stude ... Show More
32m 21s
Aug 2020
3: ‘This Is Our School, How Dare You?’
Chana Joffe-Walt explores how white parents can shape a school — even when they aren’t there.She traces the history of I.S. 293, now the Boerum Hill School for International Studies, from the 1980s through the modern education reforms of the 2000s. In the process, Chana talks to ... Show More
45m 3s
Feb 2019
Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks to about how black students are let down by a culture of low expectations
Mary Hudson, a former teacher in New York's public high school system, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about how black students are being let down by school leaders and administrators who are afraid to discipline unruly children for fear of being accused of racism. This convers ... Show More
16m 22s