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Nice White Parents
Podcast

Nice White Parents

Serial podcast

Julie Snyder, Sarah Koenig, Neil Drumming, Ira Glass and Chana Joffe-Walt
The New York Times, 2020
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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Eye Opening
  • Engaging

Recommendation

White progressive parents simultaneously root for and undermine diversity in public schools. Using the example of New York City public schools, award-winning radio reporter Chana Joffe-Walt, shows how well-meaning individuals’ strategies of influence end up hurting the overall system. 

Take-Aways

  • Parents upend the vision of the public school as equalizer for American people by hoarding resources for their own children.
  • After lobbying for New York’s Board of Education to build an integrated school in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, white parents didn’t send their children there.
  • Black parents organized a massive boycott to protest inequality in public schools, but the Board rejected their demands when white parents complained about integration plans.

About the Podcast

Nice White Parents is a five-part series about building a better school system from Serial Productions, a New York Times Company. Its reporter and producer Chana Joffe-Walt has worked on This American Life (TAL)and Planet Money. Producer Julie Snyder is co-creator and co-producer of Serial with reporter and producer Sarah Koenig. Koenig was named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2015. Ira Glass is the winner of several Peabody Awards. Neil Drumming is a journalist. All of them are producers of This American Life.

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