The article explores how the No Child Left Behind Act, a well intentioned law, has led to unintended consequences that have further marginalized the students it intended to help. The article is relevant to practice because it provides insight into how broad educational reforms can be perverted in practice and offers practitioners a bird’s eye view of how policy can perpetuate, rather than mitigate, inequalities.
Darling-Hammond, L. “Race, Inequality and Educational Accountability: The Irony of "No Child Left Behind". Race, Ethnicity and Education, 10(3), 2007: 245-260.
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.
Orfield, G., and Lee, C. “Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation.” Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Cambridge, MA., 2006.
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC), led by WestEd, is part of the national Comprehensive Center Network (CC Network), and works to provide capacity-building technical assistance, content expertise, and other services to effectively support state education agencies (SEAs) and their regional and local constituents in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah.
The book provides a comprehensive overview of health, social, emotional etc. issues facing Latino males in America. It is useful for practitioners who seek to further understand prevalent issues affecting Latino males in America.
Noguera, P., Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus Eds. Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males: Invisible No More. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Digital equity sets out to remove barriers to entry and participation by ensuring everyone has the technological capacity to participate in these online spaces. Still, what exactly is digital equity and how can educators support it in classrooms, schools, and districts? In order to unpack and better understand digital equity, this whitepaper analyzes digital equity through the lens of four specific digital divides: access and connectivity, digital readiness, digital use, and representation; explores potential solutions to each; and offers example of how educators are already addressing these in their classroom.
Learning.com (n.d.) What Four Divides Teach About Digital Equity, an Analysis. https://resources.learning.com/hubfs/Marketing/Resources%20Page/Whitepapers/What-Four-Divides-Teach-About-Digital-Equity-an-Analysis.pdf (accessed April 17, 2020).
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.
Tatum, B. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books: New York, 2003.
