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READINGS
Articles
http://www.maec.org/race-news.php
Extensive list of news articles on race equity issues from the Mid-Atlantic Equity
Consortium - an organization whose mission is to create learning environments free of
race, gender, class, ethnic and cultural biases.
http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/
A Web forum organized by the Social Science Research Council (a not-for-profit
international organization that seeks to advance social science throughout the world),
including a series of short essays by leading researchers with a diverse set of disciplinary
and analytic perspectives on race.
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/diversity.html
Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity , and Gender
From the hardcopy book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis.
http://www.hrea.org/learn/guides/right-to-education.html
Human rights Learning Center: Study Guide on the Right to Education from The Human
Rights Education Association.
Views Race and the Achievement Gap by Harold Berlak
Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid by Jonathan Kozol
Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students by Claude M. Steele
The Wealth Factor - from the National Education Association
A sociologist says racial
differences in family assets, not culture, explain achievement gaps in school
performance.
Books
All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown V. Board of Education by
Charles J. Ogletree, discusses the ambivalence of our judicial system, the increasing legal
challenges to affirmative action, and the issue of reparations. ISBN 0393058972
Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Education Reform to Close the Black-White
Achievement Gap by Richard Rothstein, is a revealing and persuasive analysis of how
social class shapes learning outcomes.
ISBN 1-932066-09-8
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine by Eileen Lucas and Mar Anthony,
uses age-appropriate language for young readers.
ISBN: 1-57505-227-X
Days of Courage: The Little Rock Story by Richard Kelso and Mel Williges, chronicles the
1957-58 school year from the perspective of Little Rock Nine member Elizabeth Eckford.
ISBN: 0811480704
Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality & Insecurity by Chuck
Collins and Felice Yeskel, ferrets out the root causes of economic inequality and
identifies potential solutions.
ISBN 978-1-59558-015-3
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality by Jeannie Oakes, shows how tracking
reflects the class and racial inequalities of American society and helps perpetuate them.
ISBN 978-0-300-10830-9
Poverty and Schooling in the U.S.: Contexts and Consequences by Sue Books, can help
teachers understand the contexts and consequences of poverty in children's lives.
ISBN 0-8058-9698-8
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) by Jonathan Kozol ISBN 0-06-
097499-0
Warriors Don't Cry is Melba Patillo Beals' memoir, documenting the 1957-58 school year
at Central High School. An abridged version for young readers is available.
ISBN: 0-671-86639-7

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