What Nikole Hannah-Jones has said about Parent involvement in schools

2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 26, 2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones, American journalist and New York Times Magazine writer who teaches at Howard University, has been quoted on Parent involvement in schools 2 times in 1 episode of This American Life, most recently on September 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Hannah-Jones recounted discovering in fourth grade that Najya's teacher had been checking wrong math answers as correct.

    “Like, he's just putting a checkmark. He's not checking her math. He's not correcting her. He's not teaching her. Every single one is wrong”

    This American Life: 898: An Argument (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 15:40

  • Hannah-Jones argued that schools cannot be changed from the outside and that her aim was to change power dynamics, not just donate money.

    “I think we have decades of people saying they were going to change a school from the outside, and I just don't think you do”

    This American Life: 898: An Argument (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 49:48

Episodes

  • 898: An Argument

    This American Life · Sep 26, 2026 · 1 h 3 min

    Nikole Hannah-Jones revisits her famous essay on choosing a segregated public school for her daughter Najya, who argues with her about that choice a decade later.

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