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Ansell, S. (2011). Issues A-Z: Achievement gap (web). Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/achievement-gap/index.html

Cook, L. (2015, January 28). U.S. Education: Still Separate and Unequal. U.S. News and World Report, p. 1. Retrieved from https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal

Esposito, S. (2015, June 30). Meeks: Student ‘Achievement Gap’ is Persistent Problem. Chicago Sun Times, p. 1. Retrieved from https://chicago.suntimes.com/

Halikias, D. & Reeves, R. (2017). Race gaps in SAT scores highlight inequality and hinder upward mobility (web). Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/research/race-gaps-in-sat-scores-highlight-inequality-and-hinder-upward-mobility/

Masterson, M. (2017, March 2). Urban League Research Highlights Ongoing Racial Disparity in Education. WTTW, p. 1. Retrieved from https://chicagotonight.wttw.com

Shelton, J. (2015). We already know how to close the achievement gap. Education Week 35(6), 19. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/30/we-already-know-how-to-close-the.html?qs=achievement+gap

Sparks, S.D. (2016). Study: Most school districts have achievement gaps. Education Week, 35(30), 12-13. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/05/11/study-most-school-districts-have-achievement-gaps.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O7BMa9XGXE&t=1s

Image 1: https://illinoisreportcard.com/district.aspx?source=trends&source2=achievementgapparcc&Districtid=15016299025

Image 2: https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal

Image 3: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/09/502654584/chicago-mayor-s-plan-to-promote-h-s-graduation-has-a-fatal-flaw 

Image 4: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2017/08/10/cps-students-call-fair-funding-606-protest

 

Principles of Organizing and Education

Dewey, J. (1927). The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953. Retrieved from http://pm.nlx.com

Horton, M. & Freire, P. (1990). We Make the Road by Walking. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Payne, C. (1989). Ella Baker and Models of Social Change. Signs: The University of Chicago Press Journals, 14(4), 885-899. Retrieved from https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/494549 

Image (Dewey): http://www.tc.columbia.edu/campaign/ways-to-give/annual-giving/john-dewey-circle/ 

Image (The Public and its Problems): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_and_its_Problems

Image (Freire): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire

Image (We Make the Road By Walking): https://www.amazon.com/Make-Road-Walking-Conversations-Education/dp/0877227756 

Image (Baker 1): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14992167/ella-josephine-baker 

Image (Baker 2): http://time.com/4633460/mlk-day-ella-baker/ 

 

Practitioner Articles

Gewertz, C. (2017). The challenge of creating schools that ‘work for everybody’. Education Week, 36, 24 – 25. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

Kalam, R.R. (2017). Black teachers matter. School integration doesn’t. Education Week, 36, 12 – 14. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

Image 1: http://www.gazettechicago.com/index/2018/02/school-funding-cuts-result-in-vicious-cycle-of-forced-gentrification/     

Image 2: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160902/norwood-park/chicago-schools-hike-students-fees-as-budget-cuts-continue/

Image 3: https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/03/17/uchicago-launches-new-scholarship-program-chicago-teachers 

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Hartney, M. T., Flavin, P. (2014). The political foundations of the black-white education achievement gap. American Politics Research, 42, 3-33. doi: 10.1177/1532673X13482967

Hanselman, P., Bruch, S.K., Gamoran, A.m & Borman, G.D. (2014). Threat in context: school moderation of the impact of social identity threat on racial/ethnic achievement gaps. Sociology of Education, 87, 106 – 124. doi: 10.1177/0038040714525970

Image 1: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-cps-enrollment-decline-teachers-strike-vote-edit-20160929-story.html

Image 2: http://www.jurist.org/dateline/2015/01/ashley-varnado-exclusionary-discipline.php

Image 3: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-01/the-fundamental-reason-american-students-arent-good-writers 

 

Grassroots Organizing Efforts

Image 1: http://www.chicagounheard.org/blog/7-rules-radical-parents-demand-great-education/

Image 2: http://www.lsna.net

Image 3: https://padresunidos.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=108

Image 4: http://www.progressillinois.com/quick-hits/content/2013/08/08/cps-students-launch-union-demand-voice-districts-decision-making-proce

 

Grassroots Organizations (Images)

CU: https://communitiesunited.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?

LQSA: https://vimeo.com/channels/lsna

TSJ: https://zinnedproject.org/news/conferences/ 

BT: http://www.calachicago.org/blocks-together/

AQE: https://newsettlement.org/pac/

SE: http://southernecho.org

PJU: https://www.padresunidos.org/

YUC: http://www.youthunitedforchange.org/mis_hannah

 

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