Working in education policy & strategy @EdCounselDC. Former civil rights lawyer & @DCPublicSchools teacher/district official. Views my own. | He/Him
Mar 26, 2020 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
It's clear #coronavirus will exacerbate existing inequities in education. @kevincarey1 makes the case below. But the challenge is even greater than he states. This thread explains the (at least) 6 different barriers the pandemic is creating/making bigger:
[First a note on terms. Kevin uses “pandemic learning loss.” Others talk about a “comeback gap.” I’ll focus less on what’s missing in the students and more on the add'l barriers our students least served by our system (“SLS”) are facing during and after the coronavirus crisis.]
Feb 7, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
With all the sudden interest in yearbooks, it's worth noting they've long been a tool used by #desegregation lawyers to uncover evidence of the “vestiges” of a school district's prior dual system. Here's a quick thread on my experience using HS yearbooks. 1/
As a DOJ civil rights lawyer (during early ‘00s) reviewing district compliance w/court-ordered deseg plans, I’d request all their yearbooks mainly to get a sense of whether extracurriculars/sports were still impacted by the district's segregative past. 2/
