Dale Russakoff and Jelani Cobb on race and education in Newark and elsewhere.
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 15 May 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Dale Russakoff and Jelani Cobb on race and education in Newark and elsewhere.
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| 1:11.0 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors |
| 1:15.2 | about politics. It's Wednesday, May 14th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of |
| 1:20.1 | The New Yorker. In the fall of 2010, Newark's mayor, Cory Booker, New Jersey Governor |
| 1:26.1 | Chris Christie, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, |
| 1:29.2 | appeared together on Oprah to announce their plan to radically reform Newark schools. Here's Booker. |
| 1:34.8 | We've been talking for quite some time about creating a bold new paradigm for educational excellence in the country to put the people of the city of Newark, really, in the driver's seat and the focal point. |
| 1:44.4 | This is Christy. |
| 1:45.3 | It's about the children. |
| 1:46.3 | And this is Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 1:47.7 | I've committed to a $100 million challenge grant for $100 million. |
| 1:54.8 | In the current issue of the magazine, Dale Russicoff writes about the uproar in Newark over the reforms. |
| 2:00.0 | This week is also the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that the Constitution prohibited separate public schools for whites and blacks. |
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