African-Americans and Education
Required Reading:
- Kenneth Clark, How Children Learn About Race
- Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483
- Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294
- Rury, Chapter 5
School Desegregation and “Compensatory” Programming
Required Reading:
- Rury, Chapter 6
- Watch:Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later” href=”https://movietao.com/online-movies/14950648-little-rock-central-50-years-later” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”> Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
- Mintz, Ch. 14 &15
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First assignment
Watch the TED talk by Sheryl Wudunn in which she speaks about the oppression of women and issues of poverty, education and economics. Connect and argue a viewpoint relating to oppression. How does her speech and the ideas addressed by Ravitz and others connect? How do we use education as a means of freedom, rather than oppression? Relate her talk to ideas of education as a means of oppressing, connect her ideas and argue a viewpoint relating to oppression. Our Century’s Greatest Injustice
Second Assignment
Identify three to five (3-5) Take-Aways from the assigned readings/videos (not the TED talks or assignments.
The Take-Aways should
- Specifically identify a direct quote/issue in the reading
- Discuss what you found interesting, conflicting, new, important, noteworthy as you read
- Connect to other course content or other items you have learned in other courses.
- Be succinct and specific to this course and what you’re learning
- Identify the author, the page number and the direct quote (if you are quoting).
For example (and you may use this format until you get comfortable with your own voice):
As I read hook’s text the following quote seemed particularly relevant to me, “We must courageously challenge the privileged who aggressively see to deny the disadvantaged a chance to change their lot” (p. 99). How is it that we are still having this conversation around who gets what and why in 2018? This was written in 2000, and in my own naïveté, I have always assumed that people generally want to help others. I think this connects directly to Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” and it seems that the same people are talking about the same issues and ideas.
THIRD assignment
In this age of information, we are bombarded with images and issues and causes on a daily basis. We have the ability to become active in addressing injustice, just as we have the ability to become complacent, because the injustice isn’t happening to “us”. Watch the TED talk given by Clint Smith
and discuss his message. How does his message about injustice and the historical ideals of our past connect? Write a thoughtful response (200-300 words) to the following (and any other) questions:
- How is spoken word different than just a talk? Why does spoken word hold power?
- What does his talk address, on a deeper level?
- How do you respond?
- What information from your Take-Aways/Readings connect to the ideas of injustice in education and the continuation of the same practices?
- What have you witnessed (either as a personal experience or to someone you know) that is similar in terms of educational inequity (social inequity will suffice)?
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