children from fatherless households as well as children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to get in trouble than other students
This is such a presumptuous statement! So apparently all kids of color come from fatherless homes?!?! What?!
The primary victims of the Obama administration’s effort to federalize school-discipline policy are African-American students attending majority-minority schools who are struggling to learn amid increasing classroom disorder.
This statement does nothing but try to state that she is really saying what she is saying to help those African-American kids. Yeah right.
chronically truant
But the question remains: Why is this?!?! We must look at deeper roots.
By Gail Heriot About Gail Heriot
This author is a bigot. Check out this petition I found for her removal on the US Commission on Civil Rights: https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-remove-gail-heriot-from-the-united-states-commission-on-civil-rights
physical fights on school property at a rate more than twice that of white students
Have you thought about the reasons for this? Could the long-standing institutionalized racism be a reason for this? Could it be that black people have had to fight for their lives for such a long time that it has become their norm?
African-American students, on average, misbehave more than their white counterparts
This is completely UNTRUE! School was made by white people, for white people, so the norms and ideals are those of white people, not of other cultures. How can the author make this claim?!?!?
upstage DeVos
One would not even need to try to do this in the educational arena if they have a background AT ALL in education.
controversial
How is this controversial? Schools ARE racist in their discipline practices- if they weren't, there would be no disparities along racial lines.
Betsy DeVos
Who literally know absolutely NOTHING about education.
should not be used to make conclusions about the presence or absence of unlawful discrimination
Just like almost anything, there are layers that must be taken into account.
that African-American students are disciplined at higher rates than white students
Then what is to account for this? Are African-American students "worse"?!?!?!
School Discipline Isn’t Racist
And how do you, Gail Heriot, know that? I'm assuming that you are a middle-class, white woman.
Teacher Leadership Institute where teachers of color comprise fifty percent of the cohort and are being trained on how to become formal and informal leaders and help improve some of those working conditions
This connects to the affirmative action reading from my class- it is still imperative to create this opportunity!
rooted in the community and focus on keeping young community members from leaving while you “grow” them into educators.
This is what Jeffrey Duncan Andrade writes about. It's not about plucking them from their communities, its about helping them to go back into their communities to help them thrive.
Teacher diversity is central to any discussion about the quality of schools for all kids, of all races,” she said.
Essential. But this is not usually a part of the conversation.
Margartia Bianco is a professor at the University of Denver and founder of Pathway2Teaching, a “grow your own” program to introduce high school students to educational justice and to teaching as a potential career path.
Hey! I was just mentioning her! I teach this program and it is AMAZING!! Although she is at CU Denver, not DU...
dismissed by white colleagues and were regularly called upon to act as disciplinarian
Wow. Not okay. We need to implement consistent discipline and give kids skills, not just expect teachers of color to "handle" kids. White teachers need to know their kids and respect their colleagues.
Travis Bristol
Dr. Bianco from CU Denver works with him on this issue.
“We’ve also worked very hard to help craft and pass the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to increase access and build equity for students of color and to empower educators.
Where is the follow up to ensure that this is happening?!?
address institutional racism that not only diminishes learning opportunities but creates negative working conditions for teachers of color.
Yes! Finally! I wonder how they are going to go about addressing this.
Without focusing on improving the school conditions that will keep teachers from leaving, investment on recruitment will be lost.
This is what that NEPC report left out.
We need to fix and change the way schools are run and organized
I agree. What would this look like? Is there a one size fits all model for this?
it has as much or more to do with retention than recruitment.
Yes! Leaders need to realize this and figure out how to make their schools an environment where teachers of color can thrive!
Even though they told him they had, he wasn’t satisfied and began to search and frisk each of them to be sure. According to Little, the students were treated that way regularly.
What?!??!? That is crazy and totally unacceptable!
But Ms. DeVos’s new head of civil rights, Kenneth L. Marcus, may disagree. A vocal opponent of affirmative action, Mr. Marcus was confirmed last month on a party-line Senate vote, and it was Mr. Marcus who signed Tuesday’s letter.
Great. So the new head of civil rights wishes to take them away.
“We believe the U.S. Supreme Court got it right in 2003 when it affirmed our law school’s approach at the time, which allowed consideration of race as one of many factors in the admissions process,” said Kim Broekhuizen, the Michigan spokeswoman. “We still believe that.”
How terrible that a state law can trump the supreme court law?!?!?!
Melodie Jackson, a Harvard spokeswoman, said the university would “continue to vigorously defend its right, and that of all colleges and universities, to consider race as one factor among many in college admissions, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court for more than 40 years.”
Yes!! Go Harvard!
“It remains an enduring challenge to our nation’s education system to reconcile the pursuit of diversity with the constitutional promise of equal treatment and dignity,” Justice Kennedy wrote for the 4-to-3 majority.
Another reason that Kennedy leaving is scary.
chools to skirt the law
How so?
the administration offered schools a potential road map to establishing affirmative action policies and race-based considerations that could withstand legal scrutiny from an increasingly skeptical Supreme Court
Because Obama had a law degree and understood how to do this. He also hired highly knowledgeable and educated people who could do this. Not the case with Trump.
Guidance documents like those rescinded on Tuesday do not have the force of law, but they amount to the official view of the federal government.
What exactly does this mean?
The whole issue of using race in education is being looked at with a new eye in light of the fact that it’s not just white students being discriminated against, but Asians and others as well
How are they being discriminated against? Because they can't get into elite universities?
leave the Supreme Court without its swing vote on affirmative action while allowing President Trump to nominate a justice opposed to policies that for decades have tried to integrate elite educational institutions
This is just scary. Everyone keeps saying that Trump does not have all the power because of our "checks and balances" system, but I am starting to believe that this is not true. With having selected TWO Supreme Court Justices, we will be dealing with the racist fallout for YEARS to come. Disheartening.
The Supreme Court has determined what affirmative action policies are constitutional
Then why are they being removed?
“advocate policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.”
I am so fearful of the power of this administration and how many people it is going to hurt.
signaling that the administration will champion race-blind admissions standards
This just proves, yet again, the level of racist ideology and ignorance of this administration. Disgusting.
They may gain short-term goals (a seat at a prestigious school) but they lose the long game of acquiring more seats for everyone:
Do people care about acquiring more seats for everyone? Or has everyone in the US bought into the idea that the individual is more important than the collective?
has not kept Asian-Americans from getting access to public resources to the same extent that it has African-Americans.
Where does the level of privilege fall for this group? How can this be added to discussions that we are having?
That kind of equality doesn’t exist, in large part because of the anti-Black racism that has been a defining feature of this country since its inception.
I am so glad that she put this in here. It needed to be said. The systemic racism and inequality is so apparent in schools.
20 percent of seats at the schools would be reserved for students from under-resourced middle schools who score just below the cutoff score on a standardized test,
He is only proposing 20%! Why are people complaining about this? It is ridiculous.
It gives a diverse group of working-class kids a fairer shot, which shouldn’t be controversial.
Yes! I appreciate this author already!
oaz Weinstein (@boazweinstein), the chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management, is a member of the board of the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association and the founder of Success Academy Harlem 6 and Success Academy Bensonhurst
I wonder if he only wants the students attending what I can only imagine are specialty charter schools with specific criteria for admission, to be able to get in.
Instead, he has announced a plan that will destroy it in all but name.
How would this destroy the school? By admitting more Black and Latino students, the school would be destroyed? Well, this statement surely has racist undertones.
It’s all about whether you do well on the test, which best determines whether or not you can do the academic work.
And this comes back to the age-old question of who created the test and determines whether or not someone can do the "academic work". I hate this.
“If I do this for them now, they’ll never be able to do it on their own when they leave here.”
This might be one of the single hardest things to learn as a teacher. Time is always breathing fire down our necks like dragons, but I love the way she phrases it. We definitely must put the skills that they need after they are with us at the forefront of the decisions that we make.
The class would be selecting just one issue, so once all the presentations had been heard, it was time to take a preliminary vote.
I love this idea! The idea of doing a round of research on a topic of their own choice, and then presenting, and then voting as a class to narrow it down for further investigation.
linking powerful teaching and learning with students’ social action
This is much of what Gloria Ladson-Billings refers to in her definition of culturally relevant teaching (CRT).