Description
If you want to understand whatâs wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. Hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt.
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Episodes
- 2022 / 2 / 25The Trojan Horse Affair - TrailerA mysterious letter detailing a supposed Islamist plot to take over schools shocked Britain in 2014. But who wrote it? From Serial Productions and The New York Times, âThe Trojan Horse Affair,â an...
- 2020 / 8 / 205: âWe Know It When We See ItâThis episode contains strong language.Chana has traced the history of the school from its founding and come to the present. But now: One unexpected last chapter. Last year, the school district for BHS...
- 2020 / 8 / 134: 'Hereâs Another Fun Thing You Can Do'Public schools are inequitable because the school systems are maniacally loyal to white families. We canât have equitable public education unless schools limit the disproportionate power of white parents. But...
- 2020 / 8 / 63: âThis Is Our School, How Dare You?âChana Joffe-Walt explores how white parents can shape a school â even when they arenât there.She traces the history of I.S. 293, now the Boerum Hill School for International Studies, from the 1980s through...
- 2020 / 7 / 302: 'I Still Believe in It'Chana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was originally called I.S. 293.In the process, she finds a folder...
- 2020 / 7 / 301: The Book of StatusesItâs 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.In this episode, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, follows what happens when the School of International Studiesâ 6th...
- 2020 / 7 / 17Introducing: Nice White ParentsIf you want to understand whatâs wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: White parents. A five-part series from Serial Productions, a New...