On this episode of the Learning Pod, Dispatch education reporters Alissa Widman Neese, Sheridan Hendrix and Megan Henry discuss three words that have recently ignited a national debate regarding K-12 education: critical race theory. What is it? What isn't it? And what impact could the uproar have when students return to classrooms this fall?

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