Equal Time with Mary C Curtis: The education gap

Slavery, Jim Crow laws, and COVID-19 have all contributed to a yawning gap between white public school students and their Black and brown counterparts. While the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education was supposed to correct "separate but equal," there is still a long way to go before public schools can talk about equity among students. Mary C. Curtis talks with Terra Wallin of the Education Trust to understand how we arrived at this moment and how the nation's public schools can do better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices