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Transcript: Inner City Debate Team Trounces the Competition
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NEAL CONAN
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
10-31-2006
Inner City Debate Team Trounces the Competition
Host: NEAL CONAN
Time 15:00-16:00 PM
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NEAL CONAN, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan, in Washington.
The phrase high school debate team might evoke words like anachronism, intellectual, nerdy, elite, private school, or privilege - most likely not inner-city public school or attitude. But a topnotch inner-city public high school debate team with attitude is exactly what journalist Joe Miller found at Central High in Kansas City, Missouri - a troubled institution that is in many ways an emblem of American public education over the past 60 years or so.
Since Brown versus ...