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We love to see our members collaborating! Here, Sufyan Hameed addresses workshop attendees at the
Color of Education conference in Raleigh, NC. Sufy is
IntegrateNYC
's Director of Expansion + an NCSD steering committee member, and the conference was hosted by the Public School Forum of NC. Other workshop leaders in the
School Resegregation: Trends and Possible Solution session included Charles Clotfelter (Duke University), Akeshia Craven-Howell and Rashidah Lopez-Morgan (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools), and Jim Martin (Wake County Board of Education).
Some of our favorite tweets from this #ColorOfEducation session include:
@lorikrzeszewski: Create space for those w lived exps. Power in student voice. Sufyan Hameed shared @integratenyc youth efforts to #RetireSegregation by creating their own platform for advocacy. Props to @theNCForum @Policy_Bridge for bringing youth voice to #ColorOfEducation.
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@Counselor_Martz: Learning about #RetireSegregation at #ColorOfEducation Conference Great job, student leaders at @integratenyc
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TWO UPCOMING EVENTS - REGISTER TODAY!
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EPIC Theatre Ensemble Performance of "Nothing About Us" at Maryland Institute College of Art
EPIC will perform "Nothing About Us," a rigorous, passionate, and hilarious exploration of segregation and systemic inequality in schools. Running time is approximately 30 minutes, followed by a talk-back with the student actors.
Maryland Institute College of Art
131 West North Avenue
Room 171
11/4 at 6:00pm
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Separate and Unequal: How School Investment and Integration Matters for Educational Opportunity and Attainment
November 14th (Washington, DC) - NCSD will be partnering with the Learning Policy Institute, the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and the Center for Education Policy Analysis on a congressional briefing.
Featuring: Linda Darling-Hammond, President, LPI; Rucker Johnson, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy; Sean Reardon, Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education, Stanford University.
With remarks by: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH-11).
Russell Senate Office Building
Kennedy Caucus Room
Washington, DC 20002
11/14 at 9:00am (light breakfast at 8:30am)
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NCSD's membership criteria has been updated and
the application form
is back online!
Membership is open to organizations that have demonstrated or are willing to demonstrate a commitment to racial and economic school integration in the U.S.
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| 16th Annual AERA Brown Lecture in Education Research (2019) |
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"A Shade Less Offensive": School Integration as Radical Inclusion in the Pursuit of Educational Equity
Via AERA:
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n October 24, Prudence L. Carter, a renowned scholar, award-winning author, and national expert on youth identity and race, urban poverty, and opportunity gaps in education, delivered the
16th Annual Brown Lecture. Carter's talk was followed by a discussion forum featuring Ary Amerikaner (The Education Trust) and Wade J. Henderson (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, retired) and moderated by Lauren Camera (U.S. News & World Report). View the Twitter feed
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Available from Harvard Education Press in January 2020.
All proceeds to go the
funding of the National Coalition on
School Diversity's work to further intentional school integration.
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Abstract:
"Timely and compelling, A Single Garment, makes a powerful argument in favor of local, intentional integration efforts at a critical moment. The book illuminates a way forward for school leaders, policy makers, and others interested in pursuing equitable education in an age of shifting demographics and divisive politics."
"In A Single Garment,
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley explores the leadership, policies, and practices that support contemporary school integration. Drawing on a wide range of sources, as well as her own experience as a parent, former student, and teacher, Siegel-Hawley provides a richly layered account of four Richmond, Virginia schools, each committed to building successful, diverse communities as a foundation for a just, democratic society."
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CROSS-MOVEMENT READING LIST
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Part 1:
"In just the past few months, there's been a number of new studies looking at various aspects of contemporary school segregation. Before I dive into the articles featured in this post, here's just a few examples of segregation-related research from September and October..."
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Newly-released from Integrated Schools
Between We and They: A School Integration Story:
"Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters' schooling shapes how she lives in her city... where she belongs, who she calls 'We.'"
Also
learn more and register here for Integrated Schools' free digital bookclub (on Nov. 14th & 17th). They will be reading Ibram X. Kendi's new book
How to be an Anti-Racist.
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Abstract (AERA Open): "We find evidence that districts with larger racial discipline gaps have larger racial achievement gaps (and vice versa). Though other district-level differences account for the positive association between the Hispanic-White discipline gap and the Hispanic-White achievement gap, we find robust evidence that the positive association between the Black-White discipline gap and the Black-White achievement gap persists after controlling for a multitude of confounding factors."
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Two new releases from the Haas Institute
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Evan Bissell's
Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging
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outlines a cultural strategy for belonging that centers the leadership, voices, storytelling, practices, and knowledge of people and communities who are marginalized in our society. It offers resources, evidence, case studies, and a workshop module for cultural strategies that are rooted in the Haas Institute's Othering & Belonging framework as well as in many successful models of activism and organizing."
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Newly-released from The Century Foundation
Excerpt: "The good news is that New York City already has many of the building blocks for a more integrated early education system in place. But it will take considerable problem-solving and intentional work-from policymakers and providers-to capitalize on existing opportunities for integration as well as open additional opportunities. This report attempts to give direction for some of that work, beginning with a discussion of why diversity in early education matters in the first place, followed by a summary of what we know about the demographics of early childhood education nationally."
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Re-released from the Learning Policy Institute
Excerpt: "The good news is that New York City already has many of the building blocks for a more integrated early education system in place. But it will take considerable problem-solving and intentional work-from policymakers and providers-to capitalize on existing opportunities for integration as well as open additional opportunities. This report attempts to give direction for some of that work, beginning with a discussion of why diversity in early education matters in the first place, followed by a summary of what we know about the demographics of early childhood education nationally."
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NEWS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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Disheartening but not surprising: "The letters' target was a comprehensive redistricting proposal offered by Howard County Schools [MD] superintendent
Michael Martirano
. The plan would ease overcrowding and, in Martirano's words, 'substantially improve equity and access to the best educational services" in the county's schools.'" Read more via Mother Jones:
New York City (NYC)
- Notably, Teens Take Charge was profiled by New York Times' reporters Eliza Shapiro and Nikole Hannah-Jones in an episode of The Weekly, a podcast and TV show chronicling journalists and their subjects. Additionally, Teens Take Charge collaborated with Brave New Films to follow youth in NYC as they organize to fight for educational equity.
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- The NYC Alliance for School Integration and Desegration (nycASID) is circulating an online petition asking NYC Mayor DeBlasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza to #RetireSegregation and adopt the School Diversity Advisory Group's (SDAG) recommendations. Check out this helpful infographic and video explainer, from NCSD Steering Committee and SDAG member Matt Gonzales, to learn more about the recommendations.
- Additionally, NCSD Research Advisory Panel member Amy Stuart Wells and NeQuan C. McLean, Community Education Council President for NYC District 16, have authored a piece for the Gotham Gazette explaining the importance of substantive reform of the current gifted and talented paradigm in NYC.
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Check out this local in-depth article from The Arkansas Times about the latest developments in Little Rock, AR as it once again is front-and-center in education fight over control, resources, race, and integration. Here is another recent local piece that focuses on community reactions.
- The third time is not a charm: Affluent residents in East Baton Rouge Parish have succeeded (after two failed attempts) in seceding from Baton Rouge, LA to create the city of St. George with the ultimate goal of creating a whiter, more affluent school district with a separate tax base. Check out Sophia Kasakove's coverage of the developing story for The New Republic.
REGION III
- "This is America" - Educational Equity Edition: "The Detroit case [Gary B. et al v. Whitmer] was filed in 2016 on behalf of Hall and other students who attended rodent-infested, crumbling schools that lacked certified teachers and up-to-date textbooks. It argued that appalling conditions, including an eighth grader who taught math to his classmates for a month after his teacher quit, denied students a basic right to literacy...[M[any charter schools in the city also face alarming conditions. The suit reflects that by including students from both kinds of schools." Read more via NBC News.
REGION IV
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COMMUNITY OF THOUGHT & ACTION
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For inquiries, please email conferenceNCSD@gmail.com.
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Developed in partnership with the
RIDES (Reimagining Integration: Diverse & Equitable Schools) Project
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this survey provides schools and districts with a clear picture of how students are thinking and feeling about diversity, equity, and inclusion in school. The survey can help schools and districts track the progress of equity initiatives through the lens of the student, identify areas for celebration and improvement, and signal the importance of equity and inclusion to the community.
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American Youth Policy Forum
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Boston Public Schools
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The Century Foundation
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City Garden Montessori
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The Education Trust
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ERASE Racism
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he Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
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KOYA Leadership Partners
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Learning Policy Institute
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NAACP LDF
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an Francisco Public Schools
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Urban Institute
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Southern Poverty Law Center
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11/7/19
11/9/19 |
Host:
Ass'n for Public Policy and Management
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Denver, CO
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11/7/19
11/9/19 |
Host: School Reform Initiative
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Boston, MA |
11/13/19
11/16/19 |
Host: Education Law Association
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Norfolk, VA |
| 11/16/19 |
Host: Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Journalism
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Chapel Hill, NC |
11/18/19
11/22/19 |
Host: National Education Week
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n/a |
11/21/19
11/23/19 |
Host: National Education Week
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Boston, MA |
| 11/21/19 |
Host: Building One America
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Pleasantville, NJ |
11/21/19
11/22/19
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Host: Dept of Ed Magnet Schools Assistance Program
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Crystal City, VA |
11/21/19
11/24/19
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Host:
University Council for Educational Administration
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New Orleans, LA
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