Chapter 2 Resource Guide
The Education Deficit by Ladson-Billings
“Once the charter school bubble bursts, dark communities will be left with what education researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings calls “education debt.” According to Ladson-Billings, education debt has accumulated over time, composed of the US’ historical, economic, sociopolitical, and moral debts.43 Corporate school reformers profit from the history of oppression of dark people. Their earnings rely on the stability of dark children and their families surviving while preying on their desire to do more than just survive. They make money on dark families’ dreams of thriving through education.”p. 64
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A brief history of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the U. S
“But education from the outset was built on White supremacy, anti-Blackness, and sexism. America’s first public schools, often called grammar schools, were only for White, wealthy males. And over time, when any group outside of the established norm fought for the right to educate their children, particularly by way of their culture and/or language, they were met with White rage. Native American children were taken away from their families and put into boarding schools (such as Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School), African American children were told second-class schooling was fine by way of “separate but equal,” California school codes excluded Asian American children from public schools, and in 1855, California required that all school instruction be conducted in English.”p. 44
Brown vs Board of Education more harm than good: Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History Podcast Episode
“The brilliant idea here is that even the romantic view of Brown v. Board of Education many have isn’t really the victory it might have been. Because the continued racism and segregation of the teachers, things may have become even worse! The Supreme Court should and could have done better and the world would have healed a bit quicker.”
American School System: How testing and choice are undermining education.
“Native American boarding schools, school segregation, English-only instruction, Brown v. Board of Education, No Child Left Behind, school choice, charter schools, character education, Race to the Top … all have been components of an educational system built on the suffering of students of color” p. 27.
