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May 2021
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Can We Finally End School Segregation?

WNYC STUDIOS AND THE NEW YORKER
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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 Schools, in California, to desegregate. Fifty years after parents and educators there first att ... Show More
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