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Teaching, Learning & Inclusion
- DC Area Educators for Social Justice’s resources for teaching social justice in classroom
- Fostering Intergroup Contact in Diverse Schools
Schools & Equity
- Diverse DC but Segregated Schools
- Contemporary efforts to integrate schools:
- Nikole Hannah-Jones and the importance of school integration
- ProPublica report on school inequities across the nation and at individual school level — especially regarding access to AP courses; discipline; achievement gap; segregation
- PTA Fundraising in DC
- PTA Fundraising in DC
Talking & Teaching Equity at Home
- Embrace race tip sheets
- How and why to find diverse books
- White progressive parents and the conundrum of privilege
- How Parents Widen–or Shrink–Academic Gaps
- The Problem with Policy is that it’s Us: Happy Anniversary Brown v. Board
Discussion Group Readings
November 2018
Teaching for Change, “G is for Gentrification: Breaking Barriers of Race, Class, and Language”
“Maintaining a ‘Commitment to Everyone’: Toward a Vision of Equitable Development in Urban Public Schooling by Linn Posey-Maddox
October 2018
News articles about changing demographics and school closures in Capitol Hill from 1978 to 1991 and the origins of our Capitol Hill Cluster School. [PDF]
April 2018
“Opportunity Hoarding: Creating and Maintaining Racial Advantage,” from Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (2015) by Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond [PDF]
December 2017
“It’s Like Two High Schools’: Race, Tracking, and Performance Expectations” from Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools (2015) by Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond
October 2017
“Professionalizing the MPTO: Race, Class and Shifting Norms for ‘Active’ Parents.” Linn Posey-Maddox [PDF]
June 2017
Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City: How One School Became a Battleground Over Which Children Benefit from a Separate and Unequal System,” New York Times Magazine, June 9, 2016.
Contact
To request information, obtain copies of reading materials, or suggest additional resources, please contact Tom Guglielmo at tguglielmogw@gmail.com.
To get involved or join the CHCS Equity Google Group, please contact Lisa Brooks at lisaebrooks@gmail.com.