‘Learning in Public’ Reimagines What Makes a School Good

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Journalist Courtney Martin thought long and hard about where to send her budding kindergartener to school, deciding between private school or the neighborhood public school designated as “failing” by its test scores. The Oakland-based writer chronicles the experience in her new book, “Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America From My Daughter’s School.” In choosing to send her white child to a majority-Black school, Martin comes to better understand the racial segregation still present within U.S. schools, and she analyzes why so many self-described progressive white parents still favor private schools. Martin joins us to share her thoughts on why supporting public education benefits us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5	From KQED. From KQED. From KQED, you want to live a moral life to do more good than bad in this world. I'm Alexis Madrigal. If you're like most people, you want to live a moral
1:27.7	life to do more good than bad in this world. The system under and through which we live generates
1:32.6	massive inequality along racial lines. And one area this is crushingly obvious is our still segregated schools.
1:39.3	Black children are less likely to attend school alongside white children than was the case 50 years ago.
1:44.5	So what's the right thing for a white person to do?
1:47.3	Writer Courtney Martin, in her new book Learning in Public,
1:49.7	tells the story of her choice to send her daughter to her Oakland neighborhood school
1:53.0	and the movement of white parents who send their children to majority black schools
1:56.9	to help reverse resegregation.
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2:10.2	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Courtney Martin thought long and hard about where to send
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