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Ex 3) Milwaukee Hypersegregated Schools 

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Ex 3) Milwaukee Hypersegregated Schools 

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(Happening in our own community)

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Ex 2) Opportunity Gap in Disadvantaged communities 

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Ex 2) Opportunity Gap in Disadvantaged communities 

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Anindya Kundu: The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it

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How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep students from thriving in the United States -- and shows how closing this "opportunity gap" means valuing public education for what it really is: the greatest investment in our collective future.

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(Contrast between an African American neighborhood and White Suburban area and how past discriminatory practices affect minorities today.)

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A report made by Marc V. Levine, a University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee professor, points out the numerous disparities and inequality between Black individuals in Milwaukee with a variety of topics such as poverty rates, employment, mass incarceration, etc. More specifically, looking at pages 69 through 72, it highlights educational attainment and segregated schooling with African American Communities in Milwaukee. Based on a series of charts and statics, it is found that Milwaukee has the highest percentage of Black children attending hypersegregated schools in the nation. Professor Levine points out that in 2017 through 2018, "As Chart 41 shows, Milwaukee now has the highest percentage of Black children attending hypersegregated schools among the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas. Higher than in the historically segregated schools of New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Higher than in the schools of Birmingham, Atlanta, or Memphis, which themselves have not transcended the continuing legacy of the Jim Crow South. Higher than everywhere"(pg 72). Hypersegreated schools are when a racial group or minority is highly segregated into groupings and in this case, educational systems. Not only does Milwaukee lead in Hypersegreated schools, maintaining it's segregation title, but it is also near the other few metropolitan cities such as Detriot in “apartheid schools” in which around 99 percent of students are minorities. This report was chosen to highlight our own community of Milwaukee and the problem of how systemic racial practices are affecting and segregating our school systems.

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Anindya Kundu, a sociologist, educator, and writer, talks in his Ted Talk about the challenges that deprive mostly colored students of thriving in regards to their education and life. The disparity between a white district that is constantly funded and a lower-income area is disproportionality large with a 23 billion dollar gap. The real situation and possible solution to this "opportunity gap" that many children face under circumstances they cannot control are explained by Anindya in this following quote, "we're going to have to realize that our gaps in student outcomes are not so much about achievement as much as they are about opportunity". Certain opportunities are not given to low-income areas with things like old technology, underpaid teachers, and inadequate staff. Kundu describes that rather than schools saving children, our schools should be saved first from the inequalities that places many unprivileged colored students with dissimilar opportunities as white districts. Another significant point said in this Ted Talk is "this problem is systemic that often our school system perpetuates the social divide". Our problem with this social divide that constantly affects students of color has been around for decades and is deep-rooted into our society that causes difficulty in finding a solution. Instead of repeatedly putting a majority of minority students and their families in a false hope of an equal education system, they should recover the meaning of public schooling and complete the promise of what it offers. Kundu included both the problem at hand and the solutions that some communities have started implementing into their institutions which is why this example was chosen.

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A highly informative video made by Act.TV explains thoroughly how Systemic Racism in Education is still happening today. This video includes a simple run down, examples, and statistics on how the history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, redlining, and other racial practices are still affecting our own communities across the nation. The contrast between a majority African American community and a white suburban neighborhood is greatly compared as in most cases, schools with more minorities have overly populated classrooms, less extra circular activities, underpaid teachers, etc. Redlining practices have made a history of black communities unable to get out of those "undesirable areas" and since schools are funded by property taxes, minority learning environments are not ideal or equal to other highly privileged regions. It also touches on how even after high school, minorities like African Americans still struggle to get into the workforce based on their names and color of their skin. Act.TV also includes the problem and solutions on what could be done to start limiting racial bias and remanents of discriminatory practices as the problem in question, can't be solved or blamed on one person but the system built as a whole.

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Systemic racism has a large hold that is embedded in our society with a variety of topics and branches it affects. It is a practice that keeps colored minorities and unprivileged communities under based on race and ethnicity. The issues that come with systemic racism are things like health care, employment, the economy, the criminal justice system, housing, and education. Education is a vital part of the development of our youth and is constantly challenged by certain practices that interfere with the equality of our schooling systems in regard to our minorities. Notability, communities and schools who are primarily Black, Latino, Asian, etc. are over-policed, have an increase in drug and punishments, disciplined, discouraged, are taught history from a mostly white perspective, and so-on. What might not be significant to others is actually covered by a certain privilege and locating solutions to this issue is difficult to construct. Discriminatory laws and practices have since been illegal, nonetheless, it remains to continue racial injustices in our educational systems that could gradually change with those with moral intentions to be in charge.

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Articles -
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-k-12/news/2020/07/08/487386/fighting-systemic-racism-k-12-education-helping-allies-move-keyboard-school-board/

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2017/11/systemic-racism-education

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/11/02/how-redlining-still-hurts-black-latino-students-public-schools-column/6083342002/

https://sites.ed.gov/whieeaa/files/2016/10/Disrupting-Implicit-Bias-FINAL.pdf

MKE sources : https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/school-to-prison-pipeline-milwaukee/
https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/national-spotlight-shines-milwaukee-its-history-systemic-racism-should-be-front-and-center

Youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ
Ted Talks -
https://www.ted.com/talks/kandice_sumner_how_america_s_public_schools_keep_kids_in_poverty?language=en