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#1407: "A NYC High School Goes Coed After Nearly 60 Years"

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Bob Barrett
Published September 7, 2017 at 2:00 AM EDT

For almost 60 years, one of New York City’s top Catholic high schools has been accepting and educating some of the city’s top students…as long as they were boys. That all changed last year.

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23 Xaverian alumni lost their lives on 9/11/2001. This monument with an eternal flames stand in front of the school.

Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll visit Xaverian High School in Brooklyn to hear how they changed a half a century tradition of same sex education.

We’ll also hear how a catholic school in Detroit makes getting a job part of a student’s homework…and we’ll spend an academic minute with a whole lot of single people.
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Bob Barrett
Bob has been a part of the WAMC family since 2001. He currently produces and hosts National Production's The Best Of Our Knowledge. Over the years, Bob has produced The Environment Show and The Health Show for National Productions and hosted weekend mornings on WAMC for a decade. In addition to producing TBOOK, he is currently a reporter and on air host at WUWF Public Radio at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
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