NCSD2020 IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY!
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Join over 400 people from across the country to discuss and strengthen strategies for promoting racial and socioeconomic integration in elementary and secondary schools at our fifth national conference!
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NCSD WELCOMES TWO NEW MEMBERS
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The Bell
-The Bell amplifies the voices of New York City students and empowers them to lead a fight for equity in the nation's largest school system
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North Carolina Justice Center
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The North Carolina Justice Center is one of the state's preeminent voices for economic and social justice.
As a leading progressive research and advocacy organization, our mission is to eliminate poverty in North Carolina by ensuring that every household in the state has access to the resources, services, and fair treatment it needs to achieve economic security.
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NEW PROJECT & DATA REQUEST
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From our partners at Center for Education and Civil Rights:
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A new project out of Penn State University - co-led by Erica Frankenberg (professor of education and director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights, home of this blog) and Chris Fowler (professor of geography) - aims to collect longitudinal data on school attendance zone boundaries from school districts across the country. The researchers are building a database of attendance zone boundaries from 1990 to 2020, which will be made available to the public for research and, ultimately, for informing boundary changes that increase school integration."
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Professor Janelle T. Scott was one of 12 scholars selected by the The American Educational Research Association (AERA) as a 2020 AERA Fellow. AERA Fellows are "selected on the basis of their notable and sustained research achievements."
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CROSS-MOVEMENT RESOURCE LIST
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Excerpt (Learning Policy Institute): "Decades of research show that fully certified and experienced teachers matter for student achievement. Yet, providing all students with equitable access to such teachers has long been a struggle in U.S. schools. Recent teacher shortages have exacerbated these inequities in access because shortages can lead to the hiring of underprepared teachers. These teachers are typically disproportionately represented in schools serving students of color in many states."
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Abstract (Annenberg Institute at Brown University): "America's decentralized system of public school governance is premised on the assumption that the interests of voters who elect school boards will be aligned with the educational needs of students. We explore the plausibility of this assumption by comparing the demographic characteristics of voters and students across four states. Using official voter turnout records and rich microtargeting data, we document considerable demographic differences between voters who participate in school board elections and the students attending the schools that boards oversee, suggesting that the assumption is unlikely to describe reality in many settings."
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Summary: "Milly Arbaje-Thomas joins Justin Reich to discuss the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), a voluntary school integration program in Boston, Massachusetts. They'll focus on METCO's mission, its underlying values, and Milly's personal experience with the program as a former METCO parent and as its current CEO."
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Summary: "NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña Interviews Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara Finnigan about the structural inequities faced by schools in impoverished communities."
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NEWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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Boston, MA: "A new report puts concrete (and indeed shocking) numbers on something we know anecdotally: White families with kids leave the city (in this case, Boston) when their kids get to be school-aged. Released last month, Kids Today from Boston Indicators looks at how these (and other) troubling trends have contributed to increased segregation in Boston's neighborhoods and public schools." Read more via The School Diversity Notebook:
New Research: School Resegregation in Boston
New York City, NY
REGION II
Houston, TX: "The takeover by [the Texas Education Agency] is so troubling, in part, because by appointing their own board of managers the plan disenfranchises local Houston families, particularly families of students of color who make up a majority of the student population. This takeover does seem like an overreach by the state when other options to help the district were not fully explored." Read more via The School Diversity Notebook: The Takeover of Houston Independent School District
Loudoun County, VA: "Since 2016, an all-volunteer team of Loudoun residents, historians and high school students has sifted through the musty, dusty pages to distill an almost-lost history...It has never been proved that the vanishing of the records, often undertaken by white officials, was intentional or coordinated, she said. Still, it had far-reaching consequences: From the 1970s through today, she said, the historical narrative of segregated black education - as taught in most classrooms - has centered on the schools' inadequacy." Read more via the Washington Post: A Lost History, Recovered: Faded Records Tell the Story of School Segregation in Virginia
REGION III
Indiana:
"If nothing else is made clear by the percentages of students who have made use of the Indiana Choice Scholarship program, the data clearly contradict the false assumption that students of color frequently select education alternatives and remain in such programs over time." Read more via
Phi Delta Kappan:
In Indiana, School Choice Means Segregation
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COMMUNITY OF THOUGHT & ACTION
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Integrated Schools is continuing its important work after the untimely passing of its founder and our friend
Courtney Everts Mykytyn.
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Check out their two new podcasts released this month:
Please consider making a donation to honor Courtney's legacy and to help ensure that the critical work of engaging white and privileged families continues.
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April 27-28, 2020
Cambridge, MA
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Consider presenting at the conference and sharing some of your own successful practices
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Submit a proposal by March 1.
Please note, RIDES will waive the $60 conference registration fee for two presenters per organization.
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Everyday Democracy Accepting Nominations for the 2020 Paul and Joyce Aicher Leadership in Democracy Award
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"Do you know of a person or organization that stands out as a community change agent - whose work in their community exemplifies the values on which we were founded - voice for all, connection across difference, racial equity, and community change?"
Nominations are open for 2020 Paul and Joyce Aicher Leadership in Democracy Award, from February 17th - April 15th.
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IntegrateNYC and Teens Take Charge Plan NYC Schools Boycott on May 18
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"We are planning a daylong, citywide boycott of New York City public schools on May 18, 2020.It's been 66 years since Brown v. Board and NYC schools are still segregated.As students of this separate-and-unequal school system, we demand that Mayor Bill de Blasio announce a comprehensive integration plan to be implemented starting in 2020."
-IntegrateNYC and Teens Take Charge
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The Century Foundation
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City Garden Montessori
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Learning Policy Institute
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METCO
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NAACP LDF
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Othering & Belonging Institute
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Teens Take Charge
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03/13/20
03/15/20
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Host: National Education Association
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Orlando, FL
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03/23/20
03/24/20
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Host: New England Secondary School Consortium
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Norwood, MA
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03/29/20
03/30/20
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Host:
Ass'n for Public Policy and Management (APPAM)
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Washington, DC |
04/04/20
04/06/20 |
Host: National School Boards Association
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Chicago, IL |
04/13/20
04/15/20 |
Host: Magnet Schools of America
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Clark County, NV |
04/15/20
04/17/20 |
Host: American Educational Research Association
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San Francisco, CA |
04/17/20
04/21/20 |
Host: National Partnership for Educational Access
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Boston, MA |
04/21/20
04/24/20
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Host: EdBuild
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Cleveland, OH |
| 04/25/20 |
Host: Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University
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Washington, DC |
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