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“The Problem We All Live With” podcast

(Aired July 31, 2015)

Description: School desegregation is taken up in this two-part podcast through an examination of one school district’s accidental attempt at school integration. The second act of this podcast will be particularly relevant to discussions about school choice. This podcast pairs well with discussion about education for social justice. Relevant readings include Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Ta-Nahisi Coates’ Beyond the World and Me, and Chris Lebron’s “Thoughts on Racial Democratic Education and Moral Virtue.”

Topics/Themes: Progressive education/Free schools, School choice