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"A Set-up For Failure: Racial Inequality In Education" -- National Radio Show Highlights Racial Inequities In Champaign Public Schools |
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by Making Contact (No verified email address) |
02 Nov 2002
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It's been almost a half century since the U.S. Supreme
Court made the landmark Brown verses Board of Education
decision, essentially ending legalized segregation in
schools. Great progress was made in the Southeastern United
States and other regions of the country during the 1960s and 1970s. But, a series of subsequent Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s and shifts in education policy at the federal, state, and local levels, have led to a trend that some observers are describing as "resegregation."
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at
racial inequality in public education. |
MAKING CONTACT
a weekly international radio program
October 30, 2002
"A Set-up for Failure: Racial Inequality in Education"
It's been almost a half century since the U.S. Supreme
Court made the landmark Brown verses Board of Education
decision, essentially ending legalized segregation in
schools. Great progress was made in the Southeastern United
States and other regions of the country during the 1960s and 1970s. But, a series of subsequent Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s and shifts in education policy at the federal, state, and local levels, have led to a trend that some observers are describing as "resegregation."
On this edition of Making Contact, we take a look at
racial inequality in public education.
FEATURING:
Featuring: Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights
Project at Harvard University; Jeannie Oaks, Presidential
Professor of Education, UCLA; Tammy Johnson, director of
ERASE - Expose Racism and Advance School Excellence, Applied Research Center; Bill Pratt and Ken Garcia-Gonzales, teachers in the Communication Arts and Sciences program at Berkeley High School; Meleia Willis-Starbuck, student at Berkeley High School; Patrick Suppes, director of the Education Program for Gifted Youth at Stanford University; John Lee Johnson and Herb Stevens, Racial Justice Now; Gladys Hunt, a former teacher's assistant in South Champaign; Sascha Meinrath, member of a racial climate survey team.
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Gary Orfield
Civil Rights Project at Harvard University
www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights
Jeannie Oaks
Presidential Professor of Education, UCLA
1041 Moore Hall, Box 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
310.825.2494
oakes@ucla.edu
Tammy Johnson
Director of ERASE - Expose Racism and Advance School Excellence, Applied Research Center
3781 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
510.653.3415
www.arc.org
Ken Garcia-Gonzales
Communication Arts and Sciences Teacher at Berkeley High
2246 Milvia Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.508.6023
kgargon@hotmail.com
Meleia Willis-Starbuck
Berkeley High Student
1442 A Walnut St.
Berkeley, CA 94709
Bill Pratt
Communication Arts and Sciences Teacher at Berkeley High
6 Virginia Gardens
Berkeley, CA 94702
Patrick Suppes
Director of Standford's Education Program for Gifted Youth
Ventura Hall
Room 36
CSLI
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4115
650.725.6030
John Lee Johnson and Herb Stevens
Racial Justice Now
Sascha Meinrath
Racial Climate Survey Team
c/o Independent Media Center
218 W. Main Street, Suite 110
Urbana, IL 61801
meinrath@uiuc.edu
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New Equity Report Released: |
by Sascha sascha (nospam) ucimc.org (verified) |
Current rating: 0 02 Nov 2002
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Here's the URL for the Monitoring Report #1 by Peterkin and Lucey:
http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Champaign/report/monitoringreport.pdf |
New Audio URL |
by Clint Popetz cpopetz (nospam) cpopetz.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0 03 Nov 2002
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The above URL is out of date, as the show has been moved to Making Contact's archive page. The new URL is here. |