Assigned media, session 5/26 (choose one to explore and/or bring your own example to class to share)

In a final section of her 2006 Presidential Address to participants of the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Dr. Ladson-Billings outlines three main reasons that educators must shift focus from "achievement gap" to "educational debt." For our meeting, we will discuss these and other examples as "raw material" to think about how we can connect the reading to outside examples to further her argument.

PODCAST EPSIODES

"Nice White Parents"

Episode Two “I Still Believe in It” (53:37mins) [Listenhere]
Episode Three: “This is Our School, How Dare You?” (46:55mins) [Listen here]

Serial,Season Three

Episode 6: “You in the Red Shirt” (49:26 mins) [Listen here]

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This source offer detailed examples of the "economic debt" discussed by Ladson-Billings in this week's reading.

Read full article here

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This is a great resource to explain the "school to prison" pipeline, or the connection between discipline polices such as "zero tolerance" in schools and juvenile detention as well as increased possibility of incarceration later in life reflected in the second half of the Serial Season Three series on the Cleveland justice system.

Read the article here.

Relevant Graphs and Charts

These interactive maps are really useful as well:

http://salt.umd.edu/T-RACES/demo/demo.html

http://racialdotmap.demographics.coopercenter.org

http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=44adf58b53644c18b31f60f062e6a72e