Open Web Source: “Teach Us All” (Trailer Documentary) 

In this trailer for the documentary Teach Us All by Sonia Lowman. The author captures the country sixty years later after nine black kids entered a white school in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the short video of 3 minutes, the author questions the audience, “60 six later: how far have we come?”. This trailer explores the hyper segregation that the schools in the country live today, where at least 75% of the school students are from the same race. The author claims that evolution is part of us as everything in life, and segregation is not the exception; Segregation has never left just adapted to new circumstances in society. The film infers how U.S society has adopted it as a racial income inequality issue. To end up the video by saying that Education Inequality is America’s most urgent civil rights issue. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5hE2Xm_dDQ 

Magazine Article: Inequality Public Schools 

In this article by Michael Godsey, the author provides another view of how broken is the education system nowadays, while explaining the disparities between scholars and how the opportunities are limited. The author offers the SAT as an example of how unfair and unequal are these standardized exams are for students from the middle-low class who don’t receive the same education as private schools. While the kids from private schools have the opportunity to have parents that can pay hundreds of dollars in tuition for standardized exams like the SAT or ACT, the low-class students don’t get the same education and, therefore, not the same preparation for this exams. The author finishes by saying how parents see kids entering all from the same building door, yet they don’t enter through the same door of opportunities, calling them “the second door,” the systematical door. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/inequality-public-schools/395876/

Newspaper Article: A Portrait of Segregation in New York’s City’s Schools

In this article for the New York Times by Ford Fessenden, the author set out detailed and well-organized graphs accompanied by a map, to show the segregation in the five boroughs of New York City. The author uses this article to explain from a broader perspective how segregation looks in one of the most diverse cities in the world; New York. In the first graph, he evaluated the states with more segregation in schools, magnifying this social problem into a national disproportion. In the other two charts, he decided to show the consequences of segregation, being the students from low-income families the most affected group. The author accompanied the charts with a map illustrating the most segregated and less segregated schools in NYC. 

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/11/nyregion/segregation-in-new-york-city-public-schools.html

Scholarly Source: Racial Segregation and School Poverty 

In this article for the New York: Springer Science and Business Media LLC. Researches expose the truth of Black and Hispanic schools with high poverty rates. They analyze the data proportionated and explain why they suggest that schools’ racial segregation has broad implications for students’ achievements. By a graphic timeline and following the patters, they closely follow poverty rates in segregated minority schools in the country from 1998-1999 until 2015-2016. Revealing the disproportion in schools with a change rate of only 1% per year while concluding that black and Hispanic are more likely to attend to school with a high percentage of poverty because they tend to live in isolated neighborhoods with the lower average income in contrast to white children.

https://cuny-cc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_CC/qlf695/cdi_proquest_journals_2352030286

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