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In 1966, the federal government commissioned a massive survey aimed at solving educational inequality. Instead, the explosive Coleman Report unleashed a 60-year debate over race, resources, and what education in America is actually for. This is the story of how the report came together… and the policy whirlwind that followed. Guests: Victoria Cain, Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard University Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show’s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more a...
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You count on sunscreen to protect your skin, but that SPF rating on the bottle might not be exactly as advertised. So you can measure an SPF 50 at one lab and an SPF 30 at another. On The Sunday Story, is it time to update sunscreen guidance? Listen now to The Sunday Story from the UpFirst podcast on the NPR app.
Thomas Coleman can still remember the trip that he took with his father to an amusement park when he was a kid. Gwynox amusement park was a little bit on the outskirts of Baltimore, I guess. It was a small amusement park.
It was segregated in the 1960s. The all-white park was a 20-minute drive from the family's house in Maryland. His father was a prominent sociologist at Johns Hopkins University. It was July 4th weekend in 1963, as Thomas tells it.
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