Week 14 (4/15) – Schools and education (PP&C)

Why do poorer students and students of color have a hard time accessing quality public education? What should we be doing about it? 

Read:

Hannah-Jones, N. (2014, December 19). School segregation, the continuing tragedy of Ferguson. ProPublica.

Naimark, S. (2016, February 4). Gentrification and public schools: It’s complicated. Shelterforce.

Toch, T. (2019, March 20). The Lottery That’s Revolutionizing D.C. Schools. The Washington Post.

King, M. & Gaudiano, N. (2020, September 23). The pandemic could widen the achievement gap. A generation of students is at risk. Politico.

Response blog PPC-7: Find and photograph a charter school in DC. Look up the school’s website and report when it was started, by whom, and around what objectives. If you can, figure out what the building was used for prior to becoming a charter school. More broadly, what are the implications of racial segregation in our public school systems? How does DC’s school lottery seek to address these issues?