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Professor of History Victoria Cain Featured on NPR

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Associate Professor Dr. Victoria Cain was recently featured on NPR’s Throughline, discussing “The school report that changed public education”: 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.

You can listen to Dr. Cain here.

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