Chapter 8 Toolkit: Education Reform
The More You Know: The Need for Education Reform
What to Read
1 . Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks
2 . Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
3 . Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
4 . Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta Hammond
5 . Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad
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6 . What Does it Mean to be Well Educated? by Alfie Kohn
7 . Grading for Equity: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms by Joe Feldman
8 . Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet
9 . Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by bell hooks
10 . Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success by Christopher Emdin
11 . Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis)Integration by Sonya Douglass Horsford
12 . Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum
13 . Miseducated by Brandon P. Fleming
14 . The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez and Rebecca Paley
What to Watch
1 . The College Admissions Scandal
2 . Most Likely to Succeed
3 . Homeroom
4 . Borrowed Future
Organizations to Support
1 . Black Alliance for Educational Options
2 . Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability
3 . American Youth Policy Forum
4 . Black Girls Code
5 . Education First
6 . Student Debt Crisis Center
7 . Center for Universal Education
8 . UNCF
9 . NYC Opt Out
10 . Free College Now
What You Can Do
1 . Educate yourself on policy plans proposed for universal education and engage in conversations with older generations about how this can be done
2 . Learn about other countries' education systems and consider how the US compares. What could we learn? How could we implement similar policies?
3 . Protest
4 . Educate yourself about predatory lending
5 . Challenge your curriculum. Where are there cultural bias that could make it difficult for marginalized groups to learn
Keep The Conversation Going
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