Truth can often be the bitterest fruit we swallow

TEDx: The impact of desegregation on learning: Rucker Johnson

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“Denying children access to resources damages both their educational and later life outcomes.”

As schools were desegregated in the 1950s and 1960s, opponents feared that embracing students from low-performing all-black schools would lower standards and unfairly disrupt…

As a recipient of the hard effects of racism on our public education systems and as a mother who is raising a child in that same system, I think and feel that more truths like what is presented in this Tedx talk should be mainstreamed as much as violence and sex is in our pop culture.