Her job is to get the city unstuck. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange. And they were like, "Oh, we don't care. But you've seen massive influxes of literally a couple million dollars per school in many of these places that have led to more teachers, and more social workers, and more after-school programming, and lower class size, and that's why you're getting better results. Everyone got on. function downloadLink(element, action, category, url) { I never went to the north end of Hartford. Yes, right. Along our tour, happy looking kid see me with my microphone and stop me to tell me that it's true. They said their classrooms were overwhelmed by poverty. In fact, the magnet schools that already exist will lose the money that makes them such great schools. And many of them are choosing it. The person who got Hartford to go from screaming over that report to actually doing what it called for was a man named John Brittain. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. How do you like your school?" Unlike Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Hartford has given white families a way to choose integration. They complained about instructional time lost because nearly every child in the class suffered severe emotional issues, or dental issues, or hadn't eaten. And I've been in this school for five years. They visited Breakthrough Magnet and loved it. And not just the parents who read headlines during the decade long trial, but parents a whole generation later, now, parents who were kids themselves when the dead pigeons were in the newspaper. (Click here to listen to the full podcast). And at night, Enid goes home to her neighborhood in Hartford. And now here they are, stuck in a very uncomfortable place. The Problem We All Live With - Part One Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. He's writing this in 1987. When you asked the Secretary if he saw it as separate but equal, did he agree? Music help from Damian Graf, from Rob Geddis. Other editing help this week from Neil Drumming. We thank and have huge respect for all the people having brave, awkward and important conversations with their children and communities. There are many places where there are huge inequities in resources, and federal money can't begin to make up for the fact that so much of public schools is locally funded by property taxes, which is inherently in many places unfair and unequal, and I would say un-American. He would get the courts on his side, but he needed the public even more. And Ithaca, they had this slogan, "Portland girls poop." 100 pages, hundreds of pages? 'event_callback': function(){ document.location = url;} Back next week, with more stories of This American Life. ( Log Out /  '+y),'')}; And we got the White House on line 1. You are absolutely right in saying that integration should be something we talk about in schools. The Problem We All Live With strikes directly at the heart and exemplifies Rockwell’s hallmark approach: strong horizontals, close foreground, and, especially, telling details which draw the viewer into concluding a narrative, one orchestrated to move him. Who are they reaching? They need 25%. When their oldest was about to turn five, Sarah Welcome went to an open house at the school down the road. Are you just weird? This is the same year, the same exact year, that Boston began to walk away from busing after a decade of riots and basically civil war there over school integration. Readers were horrified. ( Log Out /  By "we," I'm mean I'm talking for my people. He also made a 3D insect viewer, but that's in the greenhouse. And after the game, kids from both schools left the stadium, flooded the streets. I feel ashamed that I ever felt that way. Link 7 gives information form the Department of Education in Missouri, on Normandy Schools Collaborative. And it was like--, KIANA JACKSON: Yeah, that's what they-- that was their comeback--, KIANA JACKSON: Yeah, it was really bad. He said lots of people in the administration also support integration and confirmed something we heard from other sources that this was really on the table, especially during the transition into the Obama administration, that lots of people were talking about integration and trying to figure out how to make it into formal policy. This is probably a difference of moving from New York City to a small town but to Kiana she wonders, "Maybe they do that because they're white." They have spent decades working so hard to replace a separate but equal system, and they're still having to live with one. When you drive around suburban Hartford now, occasionally you'll see a sign on someone's lawn that says "I heart magnets." It's This American Life. ( Log Out /  Your prom was so nice too." And the white schools in that story, they did not want integration. And so one of our recruitment billboards said "Both you and your child should be working here in Hartford." Sometimes, white families are happy to see it, but it's not usually why they show up. It's the scary part of Hartford. element.onclick = function() { We knew the school had to wow us, because it's in the frickin' north end Hartford. Really nice blog! She did. She's a Latina kid in school and she sees a bunch of kids who don't look like anyone else in the cafeteria and she is not suspicious, or shy, or mean. His family won the lottery. I guess it was the parents. I think there's a class in the planetarium. Link 3 is a video that is easy to understand and can be shown to students. The transfer law in Missouri didn’t fix everything. But he also said, "Those students, who you're worried about in segregated schools, we're doing a ton of stuff to help those students in particular. I think some do learn about it, in some form. Surprise! The current reality of segregated housing is irrelevant . Is it safe?" })(window,document.documentElement,'async-hide','dataLayer',4000, Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Our podcast is back by popular demand. KIANA JACKSON: And the girls pissed off.

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