The banality of racism in education brookings.edu/blog/brown-cen…
“We are a country only a century-and-a-half removed from the enslavement of African Americans and its accompanying anti-literacy laws, which prohibited teaching slaves to read and write. The end of that era led not to some type of egalitarian or meritocratic society—“...
“or any sincere, sustained attempt to get there—but rather to the Jim Crow laws & de jure segregation of yesterday and the de facto segregation & structural racism of today. We are not a country in which current disparities just reflect how hard diff groups of people are trying”
This article by Gloria Larson Billings is referenced in the above article. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.310…
The article essentially posits that standardized tests and resulting “achievement gap” language misplaces the focus on children instead of the “education debt” owed to them and their families. 
These ideas aren’t new.
Especially for Black folks. In fact an SFUSD Black parent leader, Ms. Pitcher made a similar argument during last Tuesday’s Board meeting when she said: It’s not the fish, it’s the water in the pond.
sfpsmom.com/we-have-to-do-…
Especially for Black folks. In fact an SFUSD Black parent leader, Ms. Pitcher made a similar argument during last Tuesday’s Board meeting when she said: It’s not the fish, it’s the water in the pond.
sfpsmom.com/we-have-to-do-…
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