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SUMMARY/ARGUMENT Podcast: Nikole Hannah-Jones, an investigative reporter at the New York times, is the speaker in this podcast. In this podcast, she speaks about her experience with segregation in the schools she was investigating in Durham, North Carolina. During her studies, she found that many “bad” school, which were usually lower class and minorities, very seldom caught ip to the “good schools”, usually upper class and white. However, something that she did find was that, the more schools intergrated white and black students together, the less there was such of a gap between the good and bad reputation of the schools. Back in 1971, black students’ test scores were 39 points lower than their white counterparts. However, fast forward nearly 20 years to 1988, and their scores were now only 19 points lower According to Hannah-Jones, this is because of the introduction of intergration. The takeaway meaning behind this podcast is the idea of intergration, segregation, and how the in...
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