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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Black Girls Suspended More Often

    Around the country, students of color are suspended three times as often as white students, according to the Department of Education. We hear a lot about how these disparities affect boys. But girls get less attention, even though black girls are suspended six times more often than their white counterparts.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 27, 2015 • 1 min read

    Around the country, students of color are suspended three times as often as white students, according to the Department of Education. We hear a lot about how these disparities affect boys. But girls get less attention, even though black girls are suspended six times more often than their white counterparts.

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    Police in Schools, A Mobile Opera, and Whither High-Speed Rail?
    1. 0:00Police in Schools
    2. 10:15Black Girls Suspended More OftenYou’re reading this
    3. 19:28Ben Carson and the Evangelicals
    4. 28:05Hopscotch, the Opera
    5. 41:00Whither High-Speed Rail?
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

      Columbia University, UCLA, founder of African American Policy Forum

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Police in Schools, A Mobile Opera, and Whither High-Speed Rail?
    1. 0:00Police in Schools
    2. 10:15Black Girls Suspended More OftenYou’re reading this
    3. 19:28Ben Carson and the Evangelicals
    4. 28:05Hopscotch, the Opera
    5. 41:00Whither High-Speed Rail?
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