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    1. joshkarpf
      JoshKarpf

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      Bob Herbert's "Separate but Unequal" column in the Times a few days ago made me think of John Jay High School's misfortunes, which I've watched in my almost twenty years of living in Park Slope.

      "If you really want to improve the education of poor children, you have to get them away from learning environments that are smothered by poverty," Herbert wrote.

      Yet in the short film "The Ghosts of John Jay High," students discuss how isolated they were amid the Slope's affluence. And "Hard Truths at John Jay School" is a good recent commentary.

    2. whynot_31
      whynot_31

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      Enacting the historic, 1954, Brown vs Board Education decision would be excellent.

      2011 - 1954 = 57 years

      You'd think 57 years would have been enough time. ...but we had some problems along the way.

      For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor.

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