This American Life - 562: The problem we all live with

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There’s one thing that has been proven to cut the achievement gap between black and white students by half: integration.

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience. Life Partners are essential to funding our show. You'll listen ad-free and get bonus episodes. 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. Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With," depicting Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all white elementary school…from thisamericanlife.org

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