Right to a Quality Education
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Jon Hale, professor at the University of Illinois, and author of the new book, “The Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race and Power Have Shaped America’s Most Controversial Education Reform Movement,” and Leigh Patel, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and author of the new book, “No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education.” They get into the history of structural racism in the U.S. public education system and discuss the controversy around critical race theory. ITT Staff Picks: - Nicole Carr writes about what it was like to navigate the decision of sending her children back to school in a school district that wouldn’t reinstate masking in this piece for ProPublica. - “You might even say that we’ve always had race theory in the classroom: the teaching, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, of a white-centric view of history,” writes Anthony Conwright in this piece for The New Republic. - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author and professor of constitutional law at John Jay College, writes about her own experience with bussing and the state of school segregation twenty years later, in this 2019 piece for Time Magazine. Photo credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski
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| 0:23.8 | To much of the country, we'll say, oh, this is sort of a recent development, but we have |
| 0:36.0 | to look at history and see that this is a long time coming. |
| 0:39.8 | So the reckoning is profound. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey dear family, welcome to In the Thick. |
| 0:47.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:51.6 | And I'm Julio Ricardo Varela. |
| 0:53.7 | Today we've got two special guests seriously from like parts of the world that matter to |
| 0:58.5 | me. |
| 0:59.5 | So from champagne, Illinois, John Hale is a professor at the University of Illinois. |
| 1:05.8 | He's author of a new book, The Choice We Face, how segregation, race and power have shaped |
| 1:11.2 | America's most controversial education reform movement. |
| 1:15.0 | That's a mouthful, but hey, thank you for writing in and welcome to the show, John. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:20.0 | That is. |
| 1:21.0 | From another part of the world that I love, and people are going to be like, what? |
| 1:23.9 | Omaha, Nebraska, Lee Patel is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education |
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