TED Talk discussing the potential of "self-organized learning environments"- a model in which students with computer/Internet access explore Big Questions.
Why Poor Schools Can't Win at Standardized Testing
Subject
Social reproduction
Description
Article arguing that since the companies that make standardized tests also make expensive textbooks that poor schools cannot afford, students at these schools are disadvantaged.
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A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones about race, education, and hypocrisy.]]>2020-08-26T13:07:34-04:00
Title
Are Private Schools Immoral?
A conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones about race, education, and hypocrisy.
Subject
Social reproduction
Description
Interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones discussing segregation, school choice, private schools, and gentrification.
Article highlights findings from Teaching Tolerance's "Teaching Hard History" report, which examines curricula and teacher and student experiences of discussing slavery.
]]>https://pedagogyandpower.org/items/show/26Podcast about how "individual choices" by privileged parents uphold systemic school segregation.]]>2020-08-26T12:59:34-04:00
Title
How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By 'Individual Choices'
Subject
Social reproduction
Description
Podcast about how "individual choices" by privileged parents uphold systemic school segregation.
]]>https://pedagogyandpower.org/items/show/27Article describing the difficult factors the author considered in choosing a school for her daughter within a highly segregated context.]]>2020-08-26T12:59:15-04:00
Title
Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City
Subject
Social reproduction
Description
Article describing the difficult factors the author considered in choosing a school for her daughter within a highly segregated context.
]]>https://pedagogyandpower.org/items/show/28Podcast on desegregation, considering one district that "accidentally" desegregated.]]>2020-08-26T12:57:57-04:00
Title
The Problem We All Live With
Subject
Policy
Description
Podcast on desegregation, considering one district that "accidentally" desegregated.
]]>https://pedagogyandpower.org/items/show/29Photos of Ruby Bridges and the events surrounding her attending a white school as part of desegregation efforts.]]>2020-08-26T12:57:30-04:00
Title
Ruby Bridges Photos
Subject
Policy
Description
Photos of Ruby Bridges and the events surrounding her attending a white school as part of desegregation efforts.
]]>https://pedagogyandpower.org/items/show/32Video in which a neuroscientist explains the concept of the "connectome" to people of different ages and levels of understanding.]]>2020-08-26T12:56:27-04:00
Title
Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty
Subject
Learning theory and practice
Description
Video in which a neuroscientist explains the concept of the "connectome" to people of different ages and levels of understanding.
Article on recognizing the learning children are already necessarily doing during the pandemic, with a call for educators to be compassionate with themselves.
Why Critical Hope May Be the Resource Kids Need Most From Their Teachers
Subject
Resistance and liberation
Description
Article including discussion with the founder of Roses in Concrete School on the importance of "critical hope" for students in poverty and those facing complex trauma.
17 Million Students Lack Home Internet. With No Relief From Congress In Sight, Schools Deploy an Awkward Mix of Buses, Mobile Hotspots to Get Them Online.
Subject
Policy
Description
Article on the technology gap during the coronavirus pandemic, and strategies districts are using to address the issue.
A reading of the children's book Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard, which addresses racial injustice.
A clip of Woke Kindergarten's Woke Read Alouds: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, in which Akiea uses a picture book to discuss respectability politics and Black children's hair.