Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: desegregation. Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at a district that, not long ago, accidentally launched a desegregation program.
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The Problem We All Live With - Part Two
Prologue
The Problem We All Live With PART ONE
The Problem We All Live With PART TWO
Nikole Hannah-Jones' story on the Normandy school district from the first part of the show continues. (14 minutes)
Nikole also wrote about Normandy for ProPublica, and she wrote an incredibly memorable story about choosing a school for her own daughter for The New York Times.
And Elisa Crouch's article in St Louis Dispatch that documented the day in the life of one Normandy senior is here.
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