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Nice White Parents is a podcast produced by Serial Productions and The New York Times and hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt.

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The podcast is produced by Serial Productions and The New York Times . [1] The podcast is hosted by Chana Joffe-Walt. [2] The five episode podcast debuted on July 30, 2020 and ended on August 20, 2020. [3] [4] The podcast discusses how progressive white parents can have a negative impact on the integration of schools. [5] The series chose to focus on progressive schools in the northeast because they are some of the most segregated schools in the United States. [6] The first episode discusses a fund raising party for a dual-language French program for a Brooklyn public school and contrasts the economic class of the party attendees and the students. [7] The podcast focuses on the Boreum School of International Studies in Brooklyn. [8] The podcast discusses the school districts history going back to the 1960s. [9] In the final episode of the series Joffe-Walt discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected education. [10] Issa Rae later produced a comedy series based on the podcast. [11] [12] The show was criticised by Fox News . [13]

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