Jul 26, 2023
In an emotional moment, Gallaudet University held a graduation ceremony for 23 Black deaf students and their teachers more than 70 years aft
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In an emotional moment, Gallaudet University held a graduation ceremony for 23 Black deaf students and their teachers more than 70 years aft
A look back on how northern schools like Teachers College welcomed Black graduate students blocked from attending schools in the segregation
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z4lB9j6ryk)
The Tale of Two Schools
"University Heights High School is on St. Anns Avenue in the South Bronx, which is part of the poorest congressional district in America, according to the Census Bureau. Six miles away is the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, with its arched stone entrance and celebrities’ children and $43,000-a-year tuition. Eight years ago, as part of a program called Classroom Connections, students from the schools began exchanging letters, which eventually led to a small group from University Heights visiting Fieldston for a day. “At the time in our school, these were tough street kids,” said Lisa Greenbaum, who has been teaching English literature at University Heights for 10 years. “They walked into Fieldston, and they were just overwhelmed. They couldn’t imagine that this was just minutes from where they lived, and they never even knew about it. One kid ran crying off campus. It made them so disheartened about their own circumstances.”
Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich...
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA (CRP) and the Institute on Education Law and Policy at Rutgers University-Newark (IELP) today jointly released two reports finding that the racial and socioeconomic divide in New Jersey public education continues to grow unabated. While the CRP report documents the jump from 1989 to 2010 in quantity of apartheid schools in New Jersey, the IELP study shows that extreme isolation of poor students of color is concentrated in mostly urban areas. Both studies are products of close collaboration between the two research centers and are interrelated, but each develops a distinctive set of issues.
"In 1881, a New Jersey statute was enacted that prohibited segregated schooling based on race, one of the very first such laws in the nation. In 1947, New Jersey adopted a state constitutional provision that specifically prohibited segregation in the public schools. It is the only state with such an explicit provision. "
Educational Segregation in the US prior to Brown v Board of Education