City of New Haven, "New Haven Public Schools Site Based Budget 2013 – 2014", City of New Haven, Accessed May 25, 2014, http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/uploads/Complete_2013-2014_Budget_Book.pdf. - For both teachers and students. One of the more comprehensive site-based school budget documents that I have come across in my research. Includes all labor costs for each school building, land costs, and capital costs. It also includes costs that are included in the budget.
Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. "The State-Local Partnership For Education: An Unbalanced Relationship." 2011. Accessed July 19, 2014, http://advocacy.ccm-ct.org/Resources.ashx?id=e9ec4b7a-9387-4679-95cc-6b748ff86412.
Cotto, Robert, Jr. and Kenneth Feder. "Choice Watch: Diversity and Access in Connecticut's School Choice Program." Connecticut Voices For Children, April 2014. Accessed July 16, 2014, http://www.ctvoices.org/sites/default/files/edu14choicewatchfull.pdf - This resource can be used as a resource of knowledge for teachers, but it also has great infographics including tables, charts, and graphs, which students can use to understand how the demographics of schools of choice compare to their local, public school peers.
Facing History and Ourselves. "Scope and Sequence Journey". Accessed May 25, 2014. https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/our-pedagogy/scope-and-sequence - This resource is for teachers, but if you gain access as a member, you also are able to find many resources, which you can use in your classroom with students.
Fortgang, Tal. "Checking My Privilege: Character as a Basis for Privilege". The Princeton Tory. Accessed May 25, 2014. http://theprincetontory.com/main/checking-my-privilege-character-as-the-basis-of-privilege/ - This resource is for both teachers and students. It was a recent editorial that created a large amount of controversy nationally after a Freshman attending Princeton argued about contextualizing his privilege against people who were telling him that he was acting privileged without empathizing with the lack of privilege of others.
Herbers, John. "Negro Education is Found Inferior". The New York Times, July 2, 1966.
Hochschild, Jennifer and Scovronick, Nathan. The American Dream and the Public Schools. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003. – This resource is for teachers only regarding the public education system.
Lee, Jolie. "Still Apart: Map shows states with most-segregated schools." USA Today, May 15, 2014. Accessed June 23, 2014. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/15/school-segregation-civil-rights-project/9115823/ - This is great for students. Excellent graphics that students can use to understand how school demographics have changed since Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS.
Lui, Meizhu, Barbara Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson. The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. New York, NY: The New Press, 2006. – For teachers and students to understand the nexus of race and wealth. The introduction is thought provoking for students to read and discuss because it evaluates institutional policies enacted by government that have increased wealth disparity between races.
Nixon, Richard. "Transcript of Nixon's Statement on School Busing". New York Times, March 17, 1972. – Nixon's speech on busing would be a great political speech to use to help students understand the President's viewpoint on a very controversial issue. It is highly readable for higher level readers and would need chunking or the use of specific reading techniques to help students better understand Nixon and his commentary. Uses strong rhetoric related to his goals as the president towards protecting the state of white suburbanites in America.
Rothstein, Richard. Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2004. – This is a teacher only book that gives a huge amount of background information for people looking to investigate the achievement gap and the policy tools available that would best impact the output expected from schools regarding student performance.
Rothstein, Dan and Luz Santana. Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2011. – This is a great book for pedagogy. It provides an outstanding framework for leading students into the process of being questioners of the world. It promotes lifelong learning skills and it is a technique that I have been refining in my classroom for the last two years. This provided an excellent protocol that you can use all of or pieces of to improve as a practitioner.
Rothstein, Richard. For Public Schools, Segregation Then, Segregation Since: Education and the Unfinished March. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2013. Accessed 3/29/14 on http://www.epi.org/files/2013/Unfinished-March-School-Segregation.pdf - This is a great synopsis of schools and segregation. The title is a great play on words of the George Wallace's infamous commentary on schools. Also, has excellent tables and graphs for students to use to learn better visual analysis skills.
Ryan, James. Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. – For teachers as a background for understanding how inequity and segregation have occurred against the backdrop of judicial decisions. It is an excellent demonstration of the relationship between theoretical politics, race, and law, and the real-life events that transpire from these theoretical discussions.
Weiss, Emma and Emma Garcia. "Black and Hispanic Kindergarteners Are Disproportionately in High-Poverty Schools". Economic Policy Institute,June 25, 2014. Accessed July 19
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, 2014. http://www.epi.org/publication/black-hispanic-kindergartners-disproportionately/. – For use by teachers for research with strong infographics and a link to a full report for use in and outside of class.
Yudof, Mark, Betsy Levin, Rachel F. Moran, James E. Ryan, and Kristi L. Bowman. Educational Policy and the Law5th ed. USA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011. – For teachers to research educational policy and law. Two chapters are particularly strong for the topic of this unit. One is equal educational opportunity and race. The other is equal educational opportunity and school finance. Both are necessary backdrops to understanding the law, race, and socioeconomics from a historical perspective.