The Children in Freedom School - which is based in Nakuru, Kenya – takes a slightly different approach to education.
It prides itself on being the first “Afrocentric” school on the continent.
Basically, they put African culture, identity and enrichment at the heart of everything they do in the classroom.
They were recently shortlisted for the World's Best S ... 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
Mar 2023
How AP African American studies became so controversial
<p>Why did the College Board, which oversees Advanced Placement classes, change certain parts of the AP African American studies course framework? Post Reports digs into the latest controversy about the new AP course, still in its pilot stages.</p><p><br></p><p>Read more:</p><p>< ... Show More
26m 22s
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
Jun 2022
School Colors Episode 6: "Below Liberty"
Though a lot of parents and educators agree there needs to be some change in District 28, the question remains: what kind of change? When we asked around, more diversity wasn't necessarily at the top of everybody's list. In fact, from the north and south, we heard a lot of the sa ... Show More
55m 30s