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Reexamining Gifted Education Programs Like New York City's Prep For Prep School

Prep for Prep, a nonprofit education program in New York City, helps students of color attend private schools but some argue that it fails to mitigate segregation in the city’s public schools.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley reexamines these types of programs with Vinson Cunningham (@vcunningham) of the New Yorker, who recently wrote about how Prep for Prep influenced his life.

 

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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