It was a mixed bag of articles this week, though one theme remains common: that popular policies have largely been ineffective in improving student learning and, meanwhile, have exacerbated (or ignored) school segregation. This Atlantic article looks at a recent report that went overlooked among everything else that’s happened so far this year. Released just…
Of course, it’s hard to pay attention to anything other than the Muslim Ban and the fact that Steve Bannon has displaced the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the National Security Council (and the airport protests!). In the interest of staying on top of other important issues, here’s the news summary from this week. There…
Last week, I posted short summaries and links to news articles about the Betsy DeVos hearing. Ahead of the committee vote this Tuesday, I wanted to look at one major theme that runs across all the articles: long used as resistance to school integration, vouchers and other school choice policies have been linked to greater…
I decided to dive into “All Deliberate Speed” by Charles Ogletree as the first off the list from the Sources and Topics post. Much of this may be familiar to readers, but here’s what I found most interesting in the “Significance of Brown” chapter: The court’s decision was unanimous, a high priority for Earl Warren…
There was a lot of great attention to school segregation this week. I’ve organized the best I could find into three categories. Nikole Hannah-Jones on Fresh Air NPR Summary with a link to the full interview Summary from Non-Profit Quarterly, with a different emphasis than the NPR summary and more links to related resources The…
Of course, there’s a lot to explore about an issue that has such a long and contentious history. My very short, preliminary list of sources and topics includes – Books like “All Deliberate Speed” (Charles Ogletree) and “Justice, Justice” (Daniel Perlstein); Reporting on: the recent desegregation order for Cleveland, MS public schools and on any…
Race has regularly been a part my research/work, but I have never focused squarely on school integration. At times, the blog may reflect growing pains in my knowledge development about school segregation and/or my exploration of personal privilege. I am an education policy researcher, which requires me to visit schools at the K-12 and higher…
This is a blog about something that is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Something that’s perceived to be an old ghost, of a distant and worse time, yet it animates our education policy discussions today in complicated unseen ways and affects students’ educational experiences in deeply negative ways. In an age supposedly dominated…
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