#AskTheMayor; Baltimore & Big City Policing; New Zealand Mosque Shooting; College Admissions Scandal Runs into High Schools; PB & J, Every Day
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 15, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, New York City Mayor, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Marilyn Mosby, State's Attorney for Baltimore, Maryland, discusses tackling the Baltimore’s rising crime and big city policing in an era of reform.
- Imam Khalid Latif, university chaplain for New York University, and executive director of the Islamic Center at NYU, talks about how the Muslim community is reacting to the shooting at a New Zealand mosque, and takes calls from Muslim listeners ahead of Friday prayers.
- Autumn Arnett, author of Let's Stop Calling It an Achievement Gap: How Public Education in the United States Maintains Disparate Educational Experiences for Students of Color (Information Age Pub Inc, 2019), Libby Nelson, news editor at Vox.com and former education reporter, and Ed Boland, former executive at Prep for Prep, former admissions officer at Fordham and Yale, and the author of The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School (Grand Central Publishing, 2016), explain how the college admissions scandal extends deeper in to America's high schools and the dual education system that hurts poor students of color.
- Joe Pinsker, staff writer at The Atlantic, who covers families and education, talks about why some people eat basically the same food every day — why they like it and how they do it.
