peter stuyvesant. and it really captures the man's personality. he looks vigorous, he looks energetic. he has, of course, a wooden leg. he lost it in holland in the wars against spain, and he looks like you wouldn't want to cross this guy. i mean, he's very much, wants to be in charge of everything. and although he did a lot -- >> new yorkers can be like that. >> well, you know, he kind of remindedded me a little of rudy giuliani. [laughter] somewhat somewhat crazy but also very effective. despite all the good he did for new netherland, he was a bigot. he was a dutch calvinist, his father had been a minister, and he wanted to impose that on his domain here in new netherland. he tried to throw out lutherans and jews at different points, but because there were lutheran jewish investors and directors in the dutch west indies company which employed him, he was told to back off of and leave them alone. then he decided to pick on quakers. there were no quakers in the company, so he had a free hand for a whil

in a city that is less than 15% asian, stuyvesant is 75% asian.ise the question, can and should a standardized test decide who has access to the best schools? >> the way in which new york tried to deal with elite education and inequality is by having something like a fair test as a way of deciding who gets an elite education. and the consequence of that has been more and more unfair outcomes. >> in this year's freshman class, only seven black and 33 hispanic students were offered places out of nearly 900 coveted spots. >> if you want to admit by those kinds of tests, it's at war with also wanting to admit more black and brown students. there's a historic racial gap on average in these kind of academic test scores. the furious reaction from parents and lawmakers led the mayor to say he was going back to the drawing board. >> the attempt we made to address it was not, just not effective and we have to come up with a new approach. the two are in conflict, it's really one of the big fights in higher education. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you

live down on 16th street and third avenue near stuyvesant park and i have a statue of him. he captures the man's personality. he looks vigorous and it looks energetic and he had a wooden leg. it looks like you would want to cross this guy. he is very much wants to be in charge of everything. although -- >> nor -- new yorkers tend to be like that. >> your my demille hall bit of rudy giuliani. a little crazy but also very effective and despite all the good he did for new netherland he was a. he was a dutch calvinist. his father was a minister and he wanted to impose that on his domain here in the netherlands. he tried to throw out birther and send jewish at different points but because there were lutheranse in jewish investors n the dutch company that employed him he was told to back off and leave them alone. then he decided to pick on quakers. there were no quakers on the directors of the dutch company so he had a free hand for a wild. quakers that were extremely countercultural religion. they did not recognize rank. they would not do off their hat. they use the same forms o

i wasn't in columbia at the time, at stuyvesant high school in new york city, young people got the ideahat we could make a difference if we raise our voices and organized the right way. i have to make a call out as there are folks sitting in the audience along with me, i haven't seen lynn in 50 years and we were very involved in some of the real activism, what laid the groundwork of what took place. this picture is revelatory because it is a classic picture of the radical young black man in the 60s. if i look at this, you will see there is not much daylight between how i look and how those young brothers in the black panthers look too. i don't mind say i was part of the black panthers in those days. that is me when i started the book, that is me when i stepped into ibm and started to work at ibm. what about my dad? what about 25 years before? what was that like for him? ♪ >> it was the late 1940s, post world war ii america. anything was possible, duke ellington swung jazz, jackie robinson swung the big-league bat, brown versus board of education swung through the courts. nowhere were th

to put people in college who weren't prepared for college, even in new york city, you and i know stuyvesentthe smartest high school in america if not the world. they spit out scientists all day long and the largest portion of the school happens to be asian kids. they earned these spots. now there's talk of taking these spots much like they do in harvard and giving them to other kids who didn't earn them. you can argue about whether or not these kids should have gotten these spots or not, but the problem begins in k, kindergarten. these asian kids, their parents demanded they learn the hardest stuff, that they do the hardest homework and that's why they should be rewarded with the slots at these schools. same with harvard. they lost a major court case, i'm still shocked they lost that, but we got to teach our kids at an early age instead of trying to fix it later on which disadvantages everyone. david: what was offering hope on that front, things like charter schools and things like options where you would provide these vouchers to poor families to give them the options that wealthy people h