This groundbreaking book examines the root causes of persistent disproportionality, including systemic inequality, color blindness, deficit thinking, and poverty disciplining–all of which create barriers to success for marginalized students." The book includes:
An in-depth survey of race and racism in the American education system, its laws, and its policies, all of which perpetuate systemic inequality and harmful stereotypes
A practical framework for developing cross-cultural skills and dispositions that challenge our biases and promote educational equity
Concrete strategies for interrupting and replacing deficit-based thinking and prejudices
Powerful reflections based on survey data from over 4,000 educators, which vividly illustrate how our beliefs manifest in schools and in our treatment of students
Citation: Ferguson, Edward A. 2024 Desegregating Ourselves: Challenging the Biases That Perpetuate Inequities in Our Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
The author looks at both national and California state data to illustrate how Black, Latino, and poorer student continue to lag behind their peers. He examines a number of contributing factors and outlines how California is responding to these persistent opportunity gaps.
Cano, Ricardo. 2020. Mind the Achievement Gap: California's Disparities in Education, Explained. https://calmatters.org/explainers/achievement-gap-california-explainer-schools-education-disparities-explained/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=3aadef51f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-3aadef51f2-150200105&mc_cid=3aadef51f2&mc_eid=2f49f968d8 (accessed April 17, 2020).
