Podcasts For WWU: Recent Episodes
Emily Reid
So first I am going to begin by discussing the pervasive effects that poverty has on education and its students. I am then going to transition into how we should change our mindset about how we think about poverty and education. And finally I’m going to talk about what we can do to solve this problem.
Sources
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/?episode=educationism-with-diane-ravitch
https://www.ted.com/talks/kandice_sumner_how_america_s_public_schools_keep_kids_in_poverty/transcript?language=en
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/10/education-solving-inequality/412729/
https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009455
https://www.epi.org/publication/education-inequalities-at-the-school-starting-gate/
https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/indicator/2013/05/poverty-dropouts
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/achievement-gap/2004/09
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/economists-your-parents-are-more-important-than-ever/283301/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/education-isnt-enough/590611/
In this podcast Emily Reid will read one of Kevin Henkes’ most famous books, Chrysanthemum.
Works Cited
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : and Other Conversations about Race. New York :Basic Books, 2003.
Notes: I used this source when describing the conveyor belt of racism
Sensoy, Özlem, and Robin DiAngelo. Is Everyone Really Equal? an Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education. Teachers College Press, 2017.
Notes: I synthesized the definition of positionality from a part of this text.
Year: 1850; Census Place: Hamilton, Fauquier, Virginia; Roll: 558; Page: 251; Family History Library Film: 0029686
Notes: This was the census I referenced when discussing the history of my ancestors owning slaves
Pounder, C C. H, Larry Adelman, Jean Cheng, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Tracy H. Strain, Llewellyn Smith, and Claudio Ragazzi. Race: The Power of an Illusion. San Francisco, Calif: California Newsreel, 2003.
Notes: When talking about the privilege of being able to track back my family's ancestry, I drew upon knowledge from this film