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Aug 20, 2020

Serial

read Nice White Parents - Ep. 5 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 mandated a change in the zoning process to ensure all middle schools would be racially integrated. No longer can white families hoard resources in a few select schools. Black and Latino parents have been demanding this change since the late 1950s. The courts have mandated it. Chana asks: How did this happen? And is this a blueprint for
Aug 20, 2020

Serial

read Nice White Parents - Ep. 4 Public schools are inequitable because the school systems are maniacally loyal to white families. We can’t have equitable public education unless schools limit the disproportionate power of white parents. But is that even possible? Chana finds two schools that are trying to do just that, and both are actually inside the 293 building. One is downstairs in the basement, where a charter school called Success Academy opened about 7 years ago. The other is upstairs at BHS, the newly renamed SIS.
Aug 20, 2020

Serial

read Nice White Parents - Ep. 3 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 alumni who loved their school and never questioned why it was on the edge of a white neighborhood. To them, it was just where everyone went. But she also speaks to some who watched the school change over the years and q
Aug 20, 2020

Serial

read Nice White Parents - Ep. 2 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 of letters written in 1963 by mostly white families in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. They are asking for the board to change the proposed construction of the school to a site where it would be more likely to be racially integrated. It’s less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a
Aug 20, 2020

Serial

read Nice White Parents - Ep. 1 It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students. Reporter Chana Joffe Walt follows what happens when the School for International Studies’s 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to a class of 103 —an influx almost entirely driven by white families. Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means. For more information about t
Jul 23, 2020

Serial

read Introducing: Nice White Parents We have a new show! Here’s a sneak peek of Nice White Parents, a new limited series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. Coming July 30 from Serial Productions, brought to you by The New York Times. Subscribe today.
Nov 15, 2018

Serial

read S03 Episode 09: Some Time When Everything Has Changed The state of Ohio decides where Joshua belongs.
Nov 08, 2018

Serial

read S03 Episode 08: A Madman’s Vacation A teenager decides to cooperate.
Oct 25, 2018

Serial

read S03 Episode 07: The Snowball Effect If you listen closely to the trash-talking, you start to get the message.
Oct 18, 2018

Serial

read S03 Episode 06: You in the Red Shirt Life after you put a cop in jail.

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