Ted Asregadoo talks to P.L. Thomas – from Furman University in South Carolina – about the way in which education reform in the U.S. is creating a new Jim Crow system that tracks primarily African-American school children in urban and poor area into the prison industrial complex. Part of this phenomenon is linked to the 30 year “market-based” movement to reform eduction that started under the Reagan administration.
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