Crossfiled1 outlets · filed 29 September 2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones reflects on her daughter's school experience
For decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones has reported on race, inequality and the deep divisions in American education. In a new essay, she turns the lens on a choice she made for her own family: sending her daughter to a high-poverty, low-performing school in Brooklyn.
PBS NewsHour
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PBS NewsHour repeatedly frames the piece as Hannah-Jones reflecting on her own decision and its costs, with one item foregrounding her advice to Black parents and another noting backlash to the essay. The Hill takes a very different angle, using the headline to attack broader education trends and, in its extract, to argue that public high schools are producing weak graduates.
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