Teaching After Brown v Board: Separate and Unequal

Argument:
-Wow. There are so many powerful points, statistics, and research data that these two podcasts bring about. I would argue that the main point these two podcast are hinting at is to get back to our original roots of Brown v Board and eliminate separation. 
-I feel like the deepest and most powerful stats that were brought up throughout all of these podcasts was in podcast 562. This podcast talks about how since 1988 we have almost "segregated", and since this has happened the achievement gap has widen all over again. The United States Dept of Ed. put out information last year. This info showed that Black in Latino kids in segregated schools get the worst teachers, the worst course offerings, the least access to upper level courses, etc. On top of that, the students in these school typically come from backgrounds of poverty, which reflects a whole idea of stress levels and students being surrounded by people with the same struggling background as them. The whole idea of integration between privileged students and poverty students is that the bar will be raised   for these students stuck in poverty. They will finally have the opportunity to excel and reap the benefits of higher more qualified teachers, in schools that are more financially stable.
-What these podcasts really made me think about was the video we watched in class when Dr. Bogad was out, about the two students who lived in Long Island that were in two totally different school systems. It was clear to see in this video, just like it is touched upon in these podcasts, that the systems are to blame here. We saw one black student who lived in a wealthy neighborhood, therefore he got the opportunity to go to a better school in a better system. On the other side, the other black student lived in a more poverty struck area, so he was forced into a school with a teachers of lower experience, a school with low levels of technology, and a school with a lower graduation rate. These different factors that the students encountered were all due to the simple fact that the systems were different. The second podcast defined the fact that who you are in your environment ultimately ends up defining who you are. This podcast talked about examples of small sided integration, and how students ended up adapting to their environments that they were put into. This again has to do all with the system of the schools.
-The whole idea of separate and unequal lead to me the website of Brown v Board. This website basically laid out the information of what happened during that time, and the public programs that are more recent. My question that is brought to me is where did we loose touch with the whole idea of Brown v Board. Service learning has brought new light to my eyes, as I have began to see how there is very little/no integration within classrooms or school systems. This to me is shocking.
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