Reimagining Education Summer Institute -- coming up soon! Designed for educators, policy makers, parents, and all stakeholders in K-12 schools, the
Reimagining Education Summer Institute will explore the opportunities and challenges of creating and sustaining racially, ethnically and socio-economically integrated schools.This year's Institute (July 15-18 in NYC) will feature a keynote by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our
newest publication,
The State of Integration 2018
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is a compilation of essays by the NCSD's staff and members. It begins with an assessment of current threats to school integration. It then chronicles some of the new progress and opportunities we are seeing at state and local levels.
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First Stop:
San Francisco
Bay Area
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NCSD LISTENING TOUR
Over the summer/fall, NCSD will be meeting with educators, students, parents/caregivers, and community leaders in a few cities to learn more about how issues of segregation/integration are playing out across the country.
If you live or work in the Bay Area (or are familiar with this context because of your research/advocacy), we'd love to chat with you, either in person or over the phone. Email Gina Chirichigno at [email protected] for more information.
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Removal of Anti-Busing Language in Section 426 of GEPA
We continue to advocate for and monitor progress in removing anti-busing language from the General Education and Provisions Act.
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Strength in Diversity Act
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2019 NCSD Policy Agenda
Check out our 10 policy proposals that incentivize integration as the 116th Congress begins its work.
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One of the recommendations to be implemented is
IntegrateNYC's
"5Rs of Real Integration"
as a framework to define the goals and direction of the effort to further school integration NYC. Mayor DeBlasio discussed how student input on SDAG led to the adoption of the 5Rs in his June 10th op-ed in the New York Daily News:
"Our student experts created a framework called the 5Rs: race and enrollment; resource equity; relationships across group identities; representation of staff; and restorative justice. Our students remind us that real integration starts with integrating resources and creating a system that serves everyone."
Next up for the group: a second report on the critical issues of competitive public schools admissions and academic tracking. Read more about that history and present-day circumstances in
this piece from the
New York Times, and see commentary on it from the Century Foundation
here.
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CROSS-MOVEMENT READING LIST
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A new report from the Century Foundation approaches the black-white opportunity gap through the lens of residential segregation:
"The first part of this report outlines why all Americans should care about black-white residential segregation: the perpetuation of an opportunity gap between blacks and whites. The second part delineates the ways in which black-white segregation is rooted primarily in deliberate government policies enacted over generations. And the last part of the report sketches a four-prong strategy for undoing this horrible creation."
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Released by the Georgetown Center on Education and Workforce the report finds that: "
The American Dream promises that individual talent will be rewarded, regardless of where one comes from or who one's parents are. But the reality of what transpires along America's K-12-to-career pipeline reveals a sorting of America's most talented youth by affluence-not merit."
For more resources and information on the report
click here.
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This report relies on data from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) data entry tool, primarily from the 2013-14 school year. In schools where corporal punishment is practiced, black students and students with disabilities are more likely to be struck than white students and those without disabilities.
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The State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods report, published annually by the NYU Furman Center, provides a compendium of data and analysis about New York City's housing, land use, demographics, and quality of life for each borough and the city's 59 community districts.
Notable news coverage:
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For your reading pleasure...
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Check out this short informative video
about how seemingly neutral zoning policies result in the widespread residential and school segregation.
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Follow along with host James E. Ford (former North Carolina Teacher of the Year) as he takes an in-depth look at the past, present, and future of educational inequality in NC.
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White residents are moving into city neighborhoods they've long stayed away from. They're arrival is driving up housing costs and displacing the neighborhoods' previous residents. But what does it mean for urban schools? Have You Heard talks to Yawu Miller, senior editor of Boston's African American newspaper, the Bay State Banner.
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ERASE Racism Co-Hosts Forum on Educator Diversity
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Elaine Gross, ERASE Racism President and NCSD Steering Committee Member, moderated a panel of educators of color.
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ERASE Racism co-hosted a May 31st forum on increasing educator diversity on Long Island. The event brought together 200 educators and others from Nassau and Suffolk counties at the Hofstra University Club. Other co-hosts included th
e Education Trust-New York, the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, and the Council of School Superintendents and its Commission on Diversity and Inclusivity.
The event explored the state of teacher and school leader diversity and why it matters for students, educators, and Long Island's future. The program featured the following presentations and panel discussions:
- A presentation of data looking at educator diversity on Long Island;
- A panel discussion during which educators of color shared their experiences working in Long Island public schools;
- The unveiling of The Educator Diversity Playbook, which offers resources for school districts interested in cultivating a more diverse workforce; and
- A panel discussion during which Long Island education leaders discussed policies and practices to increase educator diversity in the region's schools.
Long Island students are not being exposed to diverse educators, despite research that cites the positive impact a diverse teacher workforce can have on suspension rates, academic performance, graduation rates, and postsecondary success. According to a
recent study
by the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, 61% of Long Island's 642 public schools do not have a single Black teacher and 43% do not have a Latinx teacher. As of 2017, 92% of teachers in Long Island schools were White, while only 4% were Latinx, 3% were Black, and 1% were Asian. By comparison, the student population on Long Island was 55% White, 9% Black, 22% Latinx and 8% Asian that same year.
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Charles Hamilton Institute's "Brown@65: We Can't Afford to Retire"
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On May 16th, in honor of the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice convened a panel, Brown@65: We Can't Afford to Retire, of litigators, organizers, and scholars to reflect on and critically examine both the limits and promise of its remedies. Nationally and in Boston, public schools and neighborhoods are more racially segregated than they have been in decades, while the country's racial wealth gap continues to widen. These patterns of residential segregation and grossly disparate median net worth are equally present and urgent in Boston on the 45 years after the city's school desegregation case, Morgan v. Hennigan.
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Center for Collaborative Education
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The Center for Education & Civil Rights at Penn State
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Child Trends
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City Garden Montessori
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The Education Trust
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Learning Policy Institute
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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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07/03/19
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Host:
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
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Las Vegas, NV
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Host:
National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA)
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Houston, TX
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07/14/19
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Host:
Free Minds, Free People
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Twin Cities, MN
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07/15/19
07/18/19
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Host: Teachers College, Columbia University
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New York City, NY |
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07/21/19
07/24/19
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Host: MicroSociety
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Tulsa, OK
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08/05/19
08/08/19
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Host: National Conference of State Legislatures
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Nashville, TN
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