Comments on: Structural Racism: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Obama http://www.rosettathurman.com/2009/11/structural-racism-challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-age-of-obama/ empowering a new generation of leaders Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eric Spears http://www.rosettathurman.com/2009/11/structural-racism-challenges-and-opportunities-in-the-age-of-obama/#comment-29683 Eric Spears Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:14:20 +0000 http://rosettathurman.com/blog/?p=4121#comment-29683 For an education course I took a few years ago, I looked at the Providence, RI school system. I knew that the local property tax-based system for funding education was wack, but it became obvious that poverty and institutional racism are inextricably entwined with public education. We generally engage in myopic examinations of societal problem, addressing pieces of a problem instead of taking a hard look at the overall problem. I think this is because it's a hellofa lot easier to try to fix education by only looking at scores, or teachers, or blaming families, than it would be to examine the entire economic and cultural system that produces such vast inequities. This is the paper I wrote on the subject, focusing on Central High School as a case study: http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/poverty-racism-and-education-in-a-capitalist-nation/ For an education course I took a few years ago, I looked at the Providence, RI school system. I knew that the local property tax-based system for funding education was wack, but it became obvious that poverty and institutional racism are inextricably entwined with public education. We generally engage in myopic examinations of societal problem, addressing pieces of a problem instead of taking a hard look at the overall problem. I think this is because it’s a hellofa lot easier to try to fix education by only looking at scores, or teachers, or blaming families, than it would be to examine the entire economic and cultural system that produces such vast inequities.

This is the paper I wrote on the subject, focusing on Central High School as a case study:
http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/poverty-racism-and-education-in-a-capitalist-nation/

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