Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report (BOOK)
In 1968, a bipartisan commission was created and tasked with holding hearings, studying, and reporting out on the racial division that had caused riots in cities across America. Their charge was to identify what happened, why, and how to prevent its reoccurrence. That commission determined that while population migration was the change that took place, institutionalized white racism caused the uprisings. Extensive social systems change was required to eradicate the division. The 2018 volume investigates the myriad of structures that make up contemporary life in America and identifies how those structures continue to differ based on race and ethnicity. It is intentionally written to return the issues to the public forefront and to call citizens to action.
Citation/Source
Harris, Fred and Curtis, Alan. 2018. Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Publication Date 2024
Kerner at 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred (WEBSITE REFERENCE)
The Kerner Commission Report, published in 1967, provided leaders throughout the United States with a review of racial disparities in multiple civil organizations and recommended remedies to the wide-ranging unjust traditions. In this writing, Darling-Hammond identifies public education’s successes and failures in the ensuing half-century since that document was penned. Subsequently, she describes the actions required to bring the dream of educational equity to fruition.
Citation/Source
Darling-Hammond, L. 2018. Kerner at 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred. Learning Policy Institute, April 2018. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/kerner-50-educational-equity-still-dream-deferred?utm_source=LPI+Master+List&utm_campaign=3c852c6680-LPIMC_Kerner_Jackson_Blog_20180426&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e60dfa1d8-3c852c6680-73621275 (accessed April 27, 2018).
Publication Date 2024
Unproven Links: Can Poverty Explain Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education? (ARTICLE)
Considers the degree to which poverty contributes to disproportionality in special education.
Citation/Source
Russell J. Skiba et al. (2005) The Journal of Special Education.
Publication Date 2024
New York State Education Department My Brother’s Keeper Guidance Document: Emerging Practices for Schools and Communities (PDF)
This report commissioned by the New York State Education Department explores strategies to help boys and young men of color—and all students—realize their full potential. The report provides an overview of the outcome trends among boys of color in K-12 school environments, and a research review of the most prevalent strategies currently being implemented in schools and communities across the country.
Citation/Source
Northeast Comprehensive Center. New York State Education Department My Brother's Keeper Guidance Document: Emerging Practices for Schools and Communities. Albany, NY: New York State Education Department, 2016.
Publication Date 2024
Beyond the Schoolhouse: Overcoming Challenges and Expanding Opportunities for Black Youth in Los Angeles County (PDF)
This report examines the challenges and opportunities that Black students face in Los Angeles County. The report explores key academic and school climate indicators as they illustrate distinct differences between Black students and students of other racial and ethnic groups.
Citation/Source
Noguera, Pedro, Joseph Bishop, Tyrone Howard, and S. Johnson. 2019. Beyond the Schoolhouse: Overcoming Challenges and Expanding Opportunities for Black Youth in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Transformation of Schools, Black Male Institute, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California.
Publication Date 2024
Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation (PDF)
The resource highlights how racial segregation in schools is still a relevant and consequential issue in America. The resource provides practitioners with a critical lens as they think about the demographic trends in the districts they work in.
Citation/Source
Orfield, G., and Lee, C. “Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.” Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., 2006.
Publication Date 2024
Discarding the Deficit Model (ARTICLE)
The article describes ways in which students with disabilities have been perceived in practice. It is useful for practitioners that seek to reflect on commonly held perceptions about race and disability and how these ideas can influence practice.
Citation/Source
Harry, B. and Klingner, J. “Discarding the Deficit Model.” Educational Leadership. 64(5), 2007: 16-21.
Publication Date 2024
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (BOOK)
The book focuses on the experiences of a group of Black male students that have been labeled by school officials as disciplinary problems. It is an important book for practitioners to read because it highlights how students experience schooling, the labels given to them, the expectations held about them and the discipline they receive in school.
Citation/Source
Ferguson, A.A. Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Publication Date 2024
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (BOOK)
The book explores how racial identities manifest in public settings and how the expression of identity is received and understood by others. The book is useful for practitioners who seek to gain clarity on how to understand and talk about racial differences in honest and effective ways.
Citation/Source
Tatum, B. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books: New York, 2003.
Publication Date 2024
CCBD’s Position Summary on Federal Policy on Disproportionality in Special Education (PDF)
The paper by the Council for Children with Behavior Disorders critically questions the effectiveness of federal policy and disproportionality monitoring mechanisms. It is an important piece to read because it questions how the provisions in IDEA, and compliance to IDEA, can address disproportionate outcomes. It offers practitioners the chance to reflect on how they understand IDEAs relationship to abatement of disproportionate outcomes.
Citation/Source
Skiba, R., S. Albrecht, and D. Losen. 2012. CCBD’s Position Summary on Federal Policy on Disproportionality in Special Education. Arlington, VA: Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders.
Publication Date 2024
