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Podcast: The Lives of The Others
Episode: Are we all doing enough as parents for our kids' education? (Terri Ruyter, an educator and founding principal of one of the largest public schools in New York)
Description: Welcome to the second episode of the third season of An American, but not really podcast. In this episode I'm chatting with a founding principal of one of the largest New York public schools that is now home to over 700 students - from Pre-K to 8th graders.
Twenty years ago, right after September 11, Terri Ruyter was tasked with establishing a school in lower Manhattan. Terri worked in schools for close to 40 years as an elementary school classroom teacher, a professor of education, and as a district literacy specialist. With her Masters and Doctoral degrees from Teachers College, Co...