part 1

• This American Life episode 562: The Problem We All Live With

  Listen to this podcast https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-oneabout inequality in our school system. Be prepared to discuss in the Discussion Board. See the information on how to access/listen to podcasts on your phone in Course Materials.

• Why was the story of Michael Brown so important to this discussion of education? Nearly 1 in 2 black children and 1 in 25 white children attend schools with provisional accreditation. Why is this a problem?

part 2

• Our Educational Apartheid

  Read this article, http://www.reimaginerpe.org/files/Jonathan%20Kozol%20-%20Our%20Educational%20Apartheid.pdf titled “Our Educational Apartheid” and make a connection between the article and the podcast you listened to this week. How do they support each other? .Does anything you read or listened to this week sound familiar? Like something you’ve seen in your own life? Explain. How does educational privilege create a “ripple effect” that can last for generations? How can individual students help themselves overcome some of these effects?