Why can't the America that creates 'This American Life' also integrate our schools?

Paul Tough, formally of the New York Times Magazine, wrote that school reform was the result of “liberal post-traumatic shock” from supposedly losing the War on Poverty. Believing that it was too hard to fight poverty, trauma, segregation and the other causes of education underperformance, reformers sought a test-driven, instruction-driven shortcut. This reductionism has continued to fail.

A remarkable This American Life series, by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Chana Joffe-Walt, explains why there are no silver bullets and why we should embrace the challenge of integrating our schools in order to build an education system worthy of our democracy...