Racism in Education
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Segregation and School Funding:
How Housing Discrimination Reproduces Unequal Opportunity
Shanker Institute, May 2022
Social studies
without social justice
Popular Information, May 2022
Some teachers feel silenced on
racist mass shooting in Buffalo
The 19th, May 2022
Attending an HBCU Has
Always Been an Act of Courage
The Atlantic, Feb. 2022
#TeachTruth: Don’t censor
honest accounts of history
The Seattle Times, Jan. 2022
How Build Back Better Advances Racial Equity in Child Care and
Early Education
CLASP, Jan. 2022
Southwest Missouri high
school teacher accused of using critical race theory loses job
Springfield News-Leader, April 2022
North Carolina
superintendent apologizes
after mock slave auction
NBC News, March 2022
Some school systems pause
diversity programs amid pushback
AP News, Feb. 2022
6 Kids Speak Out Against
Hair Discrimination
The New York Times, April 2022
Want to improve student achievement? Hire a Black principal.
The 19th, April 2022
Penn Law professor Amy Wax
makes racist remarks on
Tucker Carlson show
Axios, April 2022
Book Ban Efforts
Spread Across the U.S.
The New York Times, Jan. 2022
Book bans in schools are
catching fire. Black authors
say uproar isn’t about students.
NBC News, Jan. 2022
America’s public school teachers
are far less racially and ethnically diverse than their students
Pew Research Center, Dec. 2021
University System of Georgia to
keep names on buildings with ties
to slavery and white supremacy
The Washington Post, Nov. 2021
Why white students are 250%
more likely to graduate than Black students at public universities
The Hechinger Report, Oct. 2021
Critical-Race-Theory Critics
Are Distorting Martin Luther
King's Legacy
The Atlantic, Oct. 2021
A White teacher taught White students about White privilege.
It cost him his job.
The Washington Post, Nov. 2021
At UF, someone used ‘critical’ and ‘race’ in a sentence. Trouble ensued.
Tampa Bay Times, Nov. 2021
In Minneapolis Schools,
White Families Are Asked to
Help Do the Integrating
The New York Times, Nov. 2021
In a California Desert, Sheriff’s Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes. Black Teens Bear the Brunt.
ProPublica, Sept. 2021
‘School choice’ developed
as a way to protect segregation
and abolish public schools
Washington Post, Sept. 2021
Students fight back against a
book ban that has a Pennsylvania community divided
CNN, Sept. 2021
The South Must Teach
Its Children the Truth
The New York Times, Aug. 2021
Critical race theory battles are
driving frustrated, exhausted educators out of their jobs
NBC News, July 2021
UW’s Black campus police
officers file multimillion-dollar
claims over ‘unbearable’ racism
The Seattle Times, June 2021
The War on Critical
Race Theory
Boston Review, June 2021
Arizona 'biased teaching' bill
would fine teachers for
discussion of controversial issues
azcentral, June 2021
Teachers across the country
protest laws restricting
lessons on racism
The Washington Post, June 2021
The Miseducation
of White Children
The Nation, June 2021
Diversity training on WA college campuses will soon be mandatory
Crosscut, June 2021
Students, faculty at Seattle universities join national
push for change at campus
police departments
The Seattle Times, June 2021
Texas GOP Passes Bill To
Stop Teachers From Talking
About Racism
HuffPost, May 2021
Overlooked No More:
Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in Schools
The New York Times, May 2021
The Steep Cost of Decades
of Discrimination
The Atlantic, May 2021
If Only There Were a Viral
Video of Our Jim Crow
Education System
The New York Times, May 2021
Sharp rise in parents seeking to
ban anti-racist books in US schools
The Guardian, April 2021
The case that launched Thurgood Marshall’s fight to end segregation
in America’s schools.
PBS, March 2021
The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing
NEA, March 2021
Georgetown Law Fires Professor
for ‘Abhorrent’ Remarks About
Black Students
The New York Times, March 2021
Are Private Schools Immoral?
A conversation with Nikole
Hannah-Jones about race,
education, and hypocrisy.
The Atlantic, March 2021
I was a well-meaning White
teacher. But my harsh discipline harmed Black kids.
The Washington Post, March 2021
6 Dr. Seuss books won’t be
published for racist images
The Seattle Times, March 2021
He Wants to Save Classics from
Whiteness. Can the Field Survive?
The New York Times, Feb. 2021
Missing in School Reopening
Plans: Black Families’ Trust
The New York Times, Feb. 2021
Charlottesville schools look north
for model to shed resource officers
The Daily Progress, Jan. 2021
A viral video forced a wealthy
Texas suburb to confront racism.
A 'silent majority' fought back.
NBC News, Jan. 2021
New York City Will Change
Many Selective Schools to
Address Segregation
The New York Times Dec. 2020
Cops Don’t Keep Kids Safe
at School: The Case
Against School Police
ReThinking Schools, Dec. 2020
How Black Oaklanders Finally Expelled the School Police
Mother Jones, NovDec. 2020
A reminder from new report: Washington’s schools
are far from equitable
Seattle Times, Nov. 2020
When learning is virtual,
Black parents can watch for
unfair treatment.
New York Times, Oct. 2020
What If We Radically Reimagined the New School Year?
Chicago Unheard, July 2020
What Anti-racist
Teachers Do Differently
The Atlantic, June 2020
Minneapolis Is Taking
Police Out of Schools
Slate, June 2020
4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren
NPR, June 2020
Still Separate, Still Unequal:
Teaching about School Segregation
& Educational Inequality
NYT, May 2019
How Teachers are Changing Grading with an Eye on Equity
KQED, Feb. 2019
The Resegregation of
Jefferson County
The New York Times, Sept. 2017
Why many districts are struggling
over whether to keep officers
in schools
NBC, Aug. 2021
Critical race theory: A political
debate hits WA schools
Crosscut, Aug. 2021
A $5 Million Fine for Classroom Discussions on Race? In Tennessee, This Is the New Reality
Education Week, Aug. 2021
Books
Please buy from a black-owned bookstore (click here for a list), your local independent bookstore, or from the Bookshop link provided.
The Lost Education of
Horace Tate: Uncovering
the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
Vanessa S. Walker, 2018
Listen
Fiasco
Season three tells the story of the battle
to desegregate Boston publc schools.
(7 episodes)
Integrated Schools
Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey
(58 min)
Nice White Parents
A five part podcast about
racism in public schools
The Problem We All Live With
Two-part series from This American
Life about school desegregation
The Promise
In Nashville, One neighborhood, two schools — one black and poor, the other white and well-off, and the kids stuck in the middle. (8 episodes)
Revisionist History
Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment —
A landmark Supreme Court case.
A civil rights revolution. (38 min.)
Sounds Like Hate
"Not Okay" — two episodes
focus on hate in schools
Southlake
The unveiling of the Cultural
Competence Action Plan set off a
backlash that’s consumed Southlake, fueled by a growing national crusade against critical race theory.
Teaching to Thrive
Ideas to strengthen the lives of Black and Brown students in schools & communities
Watch
A Class Divided
Frontline 1985 (53 min.)
What is Critical Race Theory & Why is it Under Attack?
YouTube (1 hour 41 min.)
Organizations & Resources
Abolitionist
Teaching Network
Black Education
Strategy Roundtable
EdBuild
Reports from a four-year study of the broken school funding system
Educating for
Democracy
The Center for Race
& Public Education
in the South
Colorful Pages
Equity in
Education Coalition
Facing History
and Ourselves
for Justice
Mentoring Urban
Students & Teens
Racial Equity
The 1619 Project
Educational
Materials Collection
Charge
College Fund
ReThinking
Schools
SMASH
Diverse Books
Zinn
Education Project