"A Dismal Report Card on Global Inequality." Dissent Magazine. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/world-inequality-report-2018. Describes the scope of economic inequality in the United States and outlines the possible causes and repercussions of inequality. Foundational source for section on Economic Inequality and Human Capital.
Bell, Alex, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, and John Van Reenen. (2017). “Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation.” [Executive Summary].
The Equality of Opportunity Project
. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/inventors_summary.pdf. Examines who is more likely to become an inventor and how this information can be used to inform policy.
Chetty, Raj and Nathanial Hendren. (2018). “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States.” [Executive Summary].
The Equality of Opportunity Project
. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_summary.pdf
This executive summary explains various findings about race and its connection to economic opportunity.
Chetty, Raj, Nathanial Hendren, Patrick Kline, and Emmanuel Saez. (2014). “Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S.” [Executive Summary].
The Equality of Opportunity Project
. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/Geography%20Executive%20Summary%20and%20Memo%20January%202014.pdf http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_summary.pdf. Foundational to my unit. Looks at upward mobility depending on where a child grows up.
Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Emanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan. (2017).“Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility.” [Executive Summary].
The Equality of Opportunity Project
. http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/coll_mrc_summary.pdf. Foundational to my unit. Examines colleges as an avenue to level the playing field and close the gap of economic inequality.
Chetty, Raj, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathanial Hendren, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang. (2016). “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” [Executive Summary].
The Equality of Opportunity Project.
http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/abs_mobility_summary.pdf
Cooper, Jennifer. "Design Your Own Penny Boat." PBS. May 19, 2015. Accessed June 25, 2018. http://www.pbs.org/parents/adventures-in-learning/2014/05/design-penny-boat/). Foundational to one of my lessons on inequality.
Desilver, Drew. "The many ways to measure economic inequality| Pew Research Center." (2015). Describes the various ways the inequality can be viewed and measured.
"Facing History and Ourselves." Facing History and Ourselves. Accessed June 25, 2018. https://www.facinghistory.org/. A valuable resource for teachers. A collection of source material, strategies, and lesson plans that can be implemented with students. Foundational to the development of my lesson plans.
Frazier, Coral Celeste.
Economic Inequality: The American Dream Under Siege.
Connecticut: Twenty First Century Books, 2018. Middle school textbook on Economic Inequality.
Goetz, Lisa. "6 Countries with Virtually Free College Tuition." Investopedia. Accessed May 26, 2018. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/080616/6-countries-virtually-free-college-tuition.asp. Outlines the countries with virtually free college tuition. This data was compared to data on economic inequality across various countries.
Goldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. "Education and technology: Supply, demand, and income inequality."
VoxEU column (http://www. voxeu. org/index. php
(2009). Credits the slowdown of education for the increase in inequality. Foundational source for all work.
"Home | The Neo-Futurist Theater." The Neo-Futurists. Accessed June 3, 2018. https://neofuturists.org/. Foundational source for lesson plans.
"Icebreakers That Rock." Cult of Pedagogy. July 23, 2015. Accessed June 25, 2018. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/classroom-icebreakers/. A collection of ice breakers that can be used to build community in a classroom.
“Income Inequality.” OECD
.
Accessed on May 25, 2018. https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm. Data on income inequality across the world by Gini Coefficient
Johnson, Lyndon B. "Commencement Address at Howard University: To Fulfill These Rights.”
Public Papers of the United States
. (1966). Source material for one of my lessons.
"Mapping Segregation." The New York Times. July 8, 2015. Accessed June 25, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/08/us/census-race-map.html. An interactive map that illustrates segregation across the United States. Used specifically to look at the racial segregation in Atlanta, GA.
Pfeffer, Fabian T., and Robert F. Schoeni. "How wealth inequality shapes our future."
RSF
(2016). Looks at three different people from three different economic brackets comparing their stories to examine how wealth inequality shapes their futures.
Piketty, Thomas.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
. Cambridge: President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2014. In depth description of the historical changes in wealth and income.
"Probability of Children's Income Level, Given Parents' Income Level."
The Hamilton Project
. Accessed May 25, 2018. http://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/probability_of_childrens_income_level_given_parents_income_level. Data on upward mobility, specifically children’s income level given parents income.
Reeves, Richard V., and Eleanor Krause. "Raj Chetty in 14 Charts: Big Findings on Opportunity and Mobility We Should All Know." Brookings. January 11, 2018. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/. A collection of Raj Chetty’s charts from The Equality of Opportunity Project. Foundational to my lesson plans.
Sherman, Erik. "America is the richest, and most unequal, country."
Fortune, September
30 (2015). Outlines the top ten richest countries according to wealth by Gini coefficient.
Sousa, David A.
How the brain learns
. Corwin Press, 2011. Foundational text for how I structure each of my lessons using the Primacy-Recency Effect.
Style, Emily. "Curriculum as window and mirror."
Listening for all voices: Gender balancing the school curriculum
(1988): 6-12. Foundational in the development of my curriculum units. Specifically, when choosing content for my students.
"Subcultures and Sociology." Grinnell College. Accessed June 25, 2018. http://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultural-theory-and-theorists/intersectionality/. Definition and origin of the word “intersectionality”.
Swiderski, Suzanne M. "Transforming principles into practice: Using cognitive active learning strategies in the high school classroom."
The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas
84, no. 6 (2011): 239-243. Foundational for the strategies that I choose to use with my students.
Tyson, Laura D'Andrea. "Income Inequality and Educational Opportunity." The New York Times. September 21, 2012. Accessed May 25, 2018. https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/income-inequality-and-educational-opportunity/. Unpacks income inequality and its impact of the types of opportunities that low-income children can access.
"U.S. Household Income Distribution 1990-2016, by Gini-coefficient | Statistic." Statista. Accessed May 25, 2018. https://www.statista.com/statistics/219643/gini-coefficient-for-us-individuals-families-and-households/. Income statistic important to the section on Economic Inequality in the United States.
Vance, J.D. "America's Forgotten Working Class." TED: Ideas worth Spreading. Accessed June 25, 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks/j_d_vance_america_s_forgotten_working_class. Foundational to my lesson plans.