Education Reform at a Personal Cost: Hannah-Jones's Daughter Speaks Out
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New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones reveals in a Times Magazine essay that she sent her daughter Najya to Brooklyn’s struggling public schools beginning in 2015 to push for equity, despite having access to top options. Najya, now a teen, says she was left behind and frustrated by the decision; Hannah-Jones acknowledges she may have failed her daughter even as she sought to improve schools for others. The piece underscores the personal toll of education activism and elicited mixed reactions.
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