Separate Is Not Equal - Brown v. Board of Education
"Today, thanks in part to the victorious struggle in the Brown case, most Americans believe that a racially integrated, ethnically diverse society and educational system is a worthy goal, though they may disagree deeply about how to achieve it."
This quote from the history tab of the website, I think does a really great job of summing up what people have fought for through the civil rights movement. After 50 years all Americans should be and deserve to be treated as equals regardless of their skin color, and as the quote says: "most Americans believe" this is a key word here, while the quote is important in explaining where we are today as an integrated society, there are still people who do not believe that we should be and do not think that we are all equal because our skin is a different color.
The Problem We All Live With - Podcast
"The US Department of Education put out data in 2014 showing that black and Latino kids in segregated schools have the least qualified teachers, the least experienced teachers. They also get the worst course offerings, the least access to AP and upper level courses, the worst facilities.
The other thing about most segregated black schools, Nikole says, is that they have high concentrations of children who grew up in poverty. Those kids have greater educational needs. They're more stressed out. They have a bunch of disadvantages. And when you put a lot of kids like that together in one classroom, studies show, it doesn't go well."
While this is a longer quote, both sections go together to prove one very important point- segregation is not the answer. There is data and studies to prove that by segregating students, they are being put into lower quality facilities, with less qualified teachers and they are not being surrounded by people to help them be the best they can be. Every student in America deserves a high quality education, equal to what many other students get, regardless of their skin color or family's income. It is not fair to separate students and put them at risk of not graduating or being successful because they aren't white.
Separate and Unequal- Bob Herbert
"Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality."
This quote stuck out to me because in the podcast "segregated schools" were mentioned a few times referring to what is going on now, and we no longer purposely segregate schools but so many communities are essentially segregated because of the neighborhoods and districts people are able to live in cause schools to be broken up by economic status, and race in many cases. I see this in the two placements I am in, in Charles Fortes in Providence children come to school in the same clothes and are all African American, whereas in Cedar Hill in Warwick the students are all dressed nicely and the school is almost all white students. No one went through very student in Rhode Island and placed them in schools based on their race and economic status, but because of society and the economy this is what has happened.
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"Today, thanks in part to the victorious struggle in the Brown case, most Americans believe that a racially integrated, ethnically diverse society and educational system is a worthy goal, though they may disagree deeply about how to achieve it."
This quote from the history tab of the website, I think does a really great job of summing up what people have fought for through the civil rights movement. After 50 years all Americans should be and deserve to be treated as equals regardless of their skin color, and as the quote says: "most Americans believe" this is a key word here, while the quote is important in explaining where we are today as an integrated society, there are still people who do not believe that we should be and do not think that we are all equal because our skin is a different color.
The Problem We All Live With - Podcast
"The US Department of Education put out data in 2014 showing that black and Latino kids in segregated schools have the least qualified teachers, the least experienced teachers. They also get the worst course offerings, the least access to AP and upper level courses, the worst facilities.
The other thing about most segregated black schools, Nikole says, is that they have high concentrations of children who grew up in poverty. Those kids have greater educational needs. They're more stressed out. They have a bunch of disadvantages. And when you put a lot of kids like that together in one classroom, studies show, it doesn't go well."
While this is a longer quote, both sections go together to prove one very important point- segregation is not the answer. There is data and studies to prove that by segregating students, they are being put into lower quality facilities, with less qualified teachers and they are not being surrounded by people to help them be the best they can be. Every student in America deserves a high quality education, equal to what many other students get, regardless of their skin color or family's income. It is not fair to separate students and put them at risk of not graduating or being successful because they aren't white.
Separate and Unequal- Bob Herbert
"Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality."
This quote stuck out to me because in the podcast "segregated schools" were mentioned a few times referring to what is going on now, and we no longer purposely segregate schools but so many communities are essentially segregated because of the neighborhoods and districts people are able to live in cause schools to be broken up by economic status, and race in many cases. I see this in the two placements I am in, in Charles Fortes in Providence children come to school in the same clothes and are all African American, whereas in Cedar Hill in Warwick the students are all dressed nicely and the school is almost all white students. No one went through very student in Rhode Island and placed them in schools based on their race and economic status, but because of society and the economy this is what has happened.
I also think that it's interesting how schools are not racially segregated on purpose. I also think that even schools that are diverse in population can be segregated. In high school I was in an English class and the teacher talked about how our school was so diverse and yet in class white kids typically all sat on one side of the room and the people of color sat on the other. This wasn't on purpose but it turned out that way because everyone sat with the people that they have always known from their own neighborhoods.
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