Democracy and Inequality: Challenges and Possible Solutions

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 21.03.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Matter Discussion
  3. Solutions
  4. Conclusion
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Student Activity Samples
  7. Notes
  8. Annotated Bibliography
  9. Appendix on Implementing District Standards

Still Separate and Unequal? A Look at School Equality in the American Democracy

Mark A. Hartung

Published September 2021

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Notes

  1. Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), ix - xv
  2. Deaton, The Great Escape, 46
  3. “California School Dashboard” California Department of Education, State of California. 2019. https://www.caschooldashboard.org/
  4. Ibid
  5. Ibid
  6. Ibid
  7. Deaton, The Great Escape, 222
  8. Ibid, 225
  9. Ibid, 226
  10. Gerald N. Rosenberg, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 49 – 52
  11. Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016), 37
  12. Ibid, 31
  13. Ibid, 46
  14. Ibid, 49
  15. Matt Levin, “The Block That Prop 13 Built,” CALmatters California Dream Series, http://projects.scpr.org/prop-13/history/, accessed August 2, 2021.
  16. Ibid
  17. “An Unfair Property Tax System.” New York Times (New York, NY), Apr. 2, 2021.
  18. Dorothy A. Brown, “Your Home’s Value is Based on Racism.” New York Times (New York, NY), March 20, 2021.
  19. Michael K. Gusmano, “Residential Segregation and Publicly Spirited Democracy” Hastings Report 51, no.1 (2021): S23
  20. Gusmano, S27
  21. Ibid, S27
  22. Dale Russakoff, The Prize (Boston: Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 36
  23. Ibid, 46
  24. Ibid, 47
  25. Ibid, 47 – 51
  26. Ibid, 131
  27. Ibid, 141
  28. Ibid, 137,138
  29. Ibid, 131,132
  30. Matt Hill, “Funding Schools Equitably Results-Based Budgeting in the Oakland Unified School District,” Center for American Progress, June 10, 2008, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/reports/2008/06/10/4571/funding-schools-equitably-results-based-budgeting-in-the-oakland-unified-school-district/.

Comments:

Mark Hartung

November 14, 2021 at 4:13 pm

benefit from my experience

Hello! I have now finished teaching this unit to students for the first time, and as suspected the idea of having them investigate their own local schools drove engagement and participation to high levels. If you are thinking about teaching this unit you are welcome to email me with questions or just to talk about ideas and resources. Best, Mark

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