Democracy and Inequality: Challenges and Possible Solutions

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objective
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Annotated Bibliography
  8. Notes

The New Brown v. Board of Education in Today’s School Segregation

Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau

Published September 2021

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Notes

1Richard Kahlenberg, “How Racially Diverse Schools,” in The Century Foundation.

2Tom Lockette, “Unmaking Brown,” in Learning for Justice. 28.

3"Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Population 2021," in World Population Review. https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/philadelphia-pa-population. Accessed Aug. 1, 2021.

4Fabiola Cineas,"25 Stats Here's How Black People," in Philadelphia Magazine.

5Samara Lynn and Catherine Thorbecke, “What America Owes,” in ABCNews.

6Coates, Ta-Nehisi, "The Case for Reparations," in The Atlantic.

7Janie Tankard Carnock, “The Triple Segregation of Latinos, ELL,” in New America.

8Ibid.

9Whitney Pirtle, "The Other Segregation." in The Atlantic.

10Kristin J. Anderson, “Feminists Are Man-Haters,” in Benign Bigotry, 129.

11Peter Greene, "Arizona GOP Hopes to Clamp Down on Teachers," in Forbes.

12Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 229.

13“Students by Race/Ethnicity,” in the School District of Philadelphia, dashboards.philasd.org.

14Ibid, “English Learners” and “Students with IEP.”

15James Madison, “No. 10” in The Federalist Papers, 47.

16“Declaration of Independence,” in History.com.

17Cathy Travis, Teacher's Guide for Constitution Translated for Kids. 11.

18“Declaration of Independence: A Transcription,” in the National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-history. Accessed August 1, 2021.

19Ibid.

20Cathy Travis, Teacher's Guide for Constitution Translated for Kids. 18.

21David Emery, "Did LBJ Advocate..." in Snopes.com.

22Michael Graetz, and Ian Shapiro, Wolf at the Door, Introduction: 1-9.

23"Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014," in United States Census Bureau. https://nlihc.org/resource/new-census-report-income-and-poverty-united-states. Aug 1, 2021

24Emma Garcia, “Schools are still segregated...” in the Economic Policy Institute.

25Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations," in The Atlantic.

26“Poverty More than a Matter of Black and White,” in Inequality.org. https://inequality.org/research/poverty-matter-black-white/. Accessed August 1, 2021

27Ibid.

28“Public School Enrollment,” in The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cgb. Accessed August 1, 2021.

29Ibid.

30“Family Income of Attendees of Private and Public Schools,” in NCES. https://nces.ed.gov/pubs97/97983.pdf. Assessed August 1, 2021.

31“Income by Race,” in DQYDJ.com. https://dqydj.com/income-by-race/.

32Gerald Rosenberg, Hollow Hope, Appendix 4.

33Richard Kahlenberg, "How Racially Diverse Schools," in The Century Foundation.

34“Tape v. Hurley (1885),” in Asian American Legal Foundation. http://www.asianamericanlegal.com/historical-cases/tape-v-hurley/. Accessed August 1, 2021.

35“ACR-146 Civil rights: Roberto Alvarez,” in California Legislative Information. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160ACR146. Accessed August 1, 2021.

36“History - Brown v. Board of Education Re-enactment,” in United States Courts. https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment. Accessed August 11, 2021.

37Ibid.

38Ibid.

39Ball, Howard, The Bakke Case: Race, Education, and Affirmative Action.

40Ibid.

41Vinay Harpalani, “The Supreme Court,” in American Constitution Society.

42Ibid.

43Ibid.

44Sarah Hinger, “Meet Edward Blum,” in ACLU.

45Ibid.

46“SFFA v. Harvard,” in the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/students-for-fair-admissions-sffa-v-harvard/.

47Ibid.

48Gary Orfield, “Schools More Separate,” in ERIC.ed.gov.

49Chandi Wagner, “School Segregation Then & Now,” in the Center for Public Education.

50Ibid.

51Ibid.

52Rucker Johnson, “Long-Run Impacts,” in NBER Working Paper Series.

53Katherine Schaeffer, “Racial, ethnic diversity increases,” in Pew Research Center.

54Ibid.

55Iman Ghosh, “Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race,” in Visual Capital.

56“2021 K-12 School & District Rankings,” in Niche.com.

57Cathay O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction, 10.

58Anastassios Kalandrakis, “Dynamics of Majority Rule,” 1.

59Ibid.

60Thomas Schelling. "Dynamic Models of Segregation," in Journal of Math Sociology, 143.

61Vi Hart and Nicky Case, “Parable of the Polygon,” in https://ncase.me/polygons/.

62Ibid.

63Hannan Adely, “Student pitch solutions to racial segregation in school,” in AP News.

64Ibid.

65Robert Dahl, On Democracy, 25.

66Betty Hart and Todd Risley, "The Early Catastrophe." in American Educator, 9.

67Muhammad, Gholdy, Cultivating Genius,80, 98, 114, 132, 154, 159-166.

68Libby Nelson, “3 maps that show school segregation in the US,” in Vox.com.

69“Racial Dot Maps,” in Cooper Center. https://demographics.coopercenter.org/racial-dot-map. Accessed August 20, 2021.

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