Listen to the Revisionist History podcast, season 2, episode 3, “Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment”. Available wherever you listen to podcasts or here:
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment
Write a 300-400 word response. You do not need to conduct additional research for this assignment, although it might be interesting and would certainly enrich the discussion.
Use a word processor to write your response to the following questions:
- In the podcast, Malcolm Gladwell spends some time talking about Leola Brown and the Supreme Court’s reasoning in the Brown decision. What is the problem with the Court’s rationale for overturning segregation?
- How does the research about race and gifted programs relate to the Brown case?
- Who is Mrs. Thompson? What does “this period of adjustment” refer to?
- How does this podcast connect to the material from the textbook?
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