Notes+October+27

Brown vs. Board of Ed

Little Rock video
 * Little Rock 9; Arkansas fought federal government in the decision to keep schools segregated
 * Ike had to bring in marines to enforce federal law
 * Arkansas fought back by closing high schools for one year
 * was it a few highlighted by the media or more people (many different license plates from diff. states)
 * Voting laws
 * literacy tests
 * poll taxes

Lists of Challenged Books
 * Harry Potter
 * Twilight Saga
 * Of Mice and Men
 * I Know Why the Caged Book Sings
 * Captain Underpants
 * Forever--Judy Bloom

Communism
 * be able to teach or not?
 * often at the forefront of civil rights activities
 * teacher's union at NYC working to hire African American teachers
 * preserve equity a lot more than other groups in America

Brown vs. Board of Ed
 * Plessy vs. Fergesson was not constitutional for K12 Education
 * segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal
 * "it hurts children in ways that cannot be undone"
 * very few citations to any type of authority, not trying to undo Plessy, instead they claim
 * plessy was creating racial classifications, in violation of 14th ammendment, but they couldn't go there b/c justices were divided over precedent and politics
 * due process: other groups were not included (Mexican Americans--"other white"), so there were no laws to separate them from "pure whites"
 * "segregation creates damage" based on doll studies (blacks choosing white dolls over black dolls in Australia)--terrible science

Social Scientists
 * headstart--equalize opportunity--not so academic, not professional teachers, small amounts of time
 * harry preschool
 * very skilled teachers in this scientific experiment
 * life experiences of kids was overwhelmingly positive with early childhood program
 * IQ and cultural deprivation--move away from IQ tests, more a function of experience over intelligence
 * Clark--high expectations for students
 * teachers need to understand students' culture
 * Almost always challengable, David Cohen, "really the scholarship on education should be conversation rather than a set of rules to follow"
 * too complicated
 * too many variable to deal with
 * be "damn sure" the research is unimpeachable

Monahan report
 * tangle of pathology