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.