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Dr. Noliwe Rooks On The Business Of Public Education

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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, director of American Studies and associate professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University,and author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation and The End of Public Education.

Rooks talks about the making and unmaking of public education, corporate takeover of education, and school choice. 

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John L. Hanson is the producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio series In Black America. It’s heard on home station KUT Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m., as well as weekly on close to 20 stations across the country. The weekly podcast of IBA, the only nationally broadcast black-oriented public affairs radio program, is one of KUT’s most popular podcasts.