The third in a series of posts about “All Deliberate Speed,” by Charles Ogletree. See the first post here about the Brown decision and the second post about the Boston busing riots. Part memoir and part historical survey, “All Deliberate Speed” weaves between Ogletree’s personal experience as, in his language, a “Brown baby” (born near…
This week, there was a great story about housing segregation and another new report on the connection between charters and school segregation. The key argument of “Segregation had to be invented,” is exactly that. The article traces the history of segregation in Charlotte, NC, though its historical background is relevant for much of the South.…
Second installment in a series of posts about “All Deliberate Speed” by Charles Ogletree. Click here for the first post. When I was reading chapter 4 of “All Deliberate Speed” – about the 1974-75 Boston busing riots – it reminded me of the account in “All Souls” of the anger/racism that gripped the city that…
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…
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…
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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