Protesting parent arrested -- Mrs. Eleanor Butler and her daughter Leonora, 6, are escorted by Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, police on Sept. 4 at the Davison Avenue School in Lynbrook after her arrest.

Course Schedule & Texts

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  1. Zuroski, E. (2020). Where Do You Know From: An Exercise
  2. Freire, P. (1970/1993). Pedagogy of the Oppressed (in The Vault 🗝)
  3. IN CLASS: Tik Toks, Tweets, & Testimonials from the Education Toolbox

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  1. Du Bois, W.E.B. (1935). Does the Negro Need Separate Schools?
  2. Hadjar & Gross. (2016). Education systems and inequalities, Introduction & Chapter 1
  1. Ladson-Billings, G. (2013). “Stakes Is High”: Educating New Century Students 
  2. Powell, L. (2016). The Law and Significance of Plessy

Know Thy Author: john a powell (othering & belonging)

  1. Gross, Gottburgsen & Phoenix. (2016). Education systems and inequalities, Chapter 3 “Education systems and intersectionality,” 51-72.
  2. Ryan, M., & Panetta, S. L. (2020). The Politics of Structured Inequality from Johnson to Trump. In The Enduring Legacy: Structured Inequality in America’s Public Schools (pp. 41–88)
  3. IN CLASS: Student Conferences

*Learning Journal #1 is “due” on Week 5 

  1. Watch Stolen Education or The Lemon Grove Incident
  2. Rucker C. Johnson. (2015). Follow the Money: School Spending from Title I to Adult Earnings, 50-76.
  1. BYOT: Bring your own text (article, video, audio, image, performance)
  2. Sanchez, M. et al, (2022). Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South.
  1. Reardon, S. (2016). School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps 
  2. Hadjar & Gross. (2016). Education systems and inequalities, Choice: Ch. 5, 8, or 11
  3. NYT. (2014). The Tale of Two Schools 
  4. Kandice Sumner: How America’s public schools keep kids in poverty | TED Talk
  5. IN CLASS: Writer’s Workshop
  1. Nguyen, K. M. (2023). “We Are The Future”: Career Attitudes of MilleniGenZ College Students, 145–164.
  2. Watson, T. (2019). A Love Letter to Babette Edwards: Harlem’s “Othermother”
  3. Alim, H. S. (2023). Inventing “the White Voice”: Racial Capitalism, Raciolinguistics & Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, 147–166.

*Learning Journal #2 is “due” on Week 9

  1. Benjamin, R. (2024) Ruha Benjamin with Rujeko Hockley: Imagination | LIVE from NYPL
  2. Woodson, C.G. (2009/1933) The Mis-Education of the Negro, Chapter 1-3
  3. Watson, T. N. (2016). Talking Back.   
  1. Craig, T. (2013). “‘Jackin’ for Beats’”: DJing for Citation Critique. The Radical Teacher, 97, 20–29.
  2. Marsellas, N. (2019). Off Scaffolding and into the Deep End. The Radical Teacher, 115, 13–20.
  3. Smitherman, G (1997). “The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation (in The Vault 🗝)

Know Thy Author: Geneva “Dr. G” Smitherman

  1. Vetting your own sources
  2. Exploring Student Activism (JSTOR Open Access)
  3. IN CLASS: Final Student Conferences and Writing Workshops

*Learning Journal #3 is “due” on Week 12

  1. Guest Speakers: Youth, Parents, Organizers, Stakeholders
  2. BYOT: The Radical Teacher on JSTOR  
  • Half of students will present their final projects
  • All of us will begin the Course Reflection Section I
  1. Final half of final projects
  2. IN CLASS: Celebrations & Libations

Image Credit: Atlanta University Center Repository, Eleanor Butler and her daughter integrating Long Island, NY schools, Sept. 4, 1963.