August 27, 2018: Hour 2

August 27, 2018: Hour 2

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There’s a common thought among parents that expensive private schools give kids a better education, which leads to a more successful life. A new study finds, though, that the advantages of private school disappear when controlling for socioeconomic factors. Also, the 2016 film “Nowhere to Hide” follows nurse Nori Sharif and his family through five years of drastic change in the “triangle of death” in central Iraq — from the end of the Iraq War through the rise of ISIS. We talk with the film’s director. And affordable housing in Puerto Rico has been in short supply after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island last year. Now, some residents in historic Old San Juan say Airbnb is making things worse. That and more, in hour two of Here & Now’s Aug. 27, 2018 full broadcast.