1/28: Introduction to Course: Welcome! 

This session we will go over the course syllabus, Lehman College COVID protocol, and get to know one another.

Before the next class session, please be sure to respond to the two Google surveys (one survey is regarding your preferred name and pronouns and the other survey is soliciting your thoughts and interests in course topics). Survey links will be posted on Blackboard and sent via the announcement section.

To do: 

• Choose one article on the intersections between COVID and education for next week that interests you.

2/4: Learning in the Era of COVID

Schools After Coronavirus: Seize Teachable Moments About Racism and Inequities 

The Pandemic Hurt These Students the Most, New York Times 

An Educator’s View: Dismantling Anti-Blackness Is Critical to Student Well Being. Our Kids Cannot Wait Any Longer. 

This class session will be heavily discussion based. Think about how COVID is shaping K-12 education, as well as higher education. How is it changing the landscape of education? What do the changes look like and what are their implications? Are they permanent and/or temporary? What does this mean for existing educational inequality? The future?

 

2/8: NO CLASS (CUNY is running this Tuesday like a Friday)

 

2/11: NO CLASS (HOLIDAY) 

 

2/18: Classical & Critical Theoretical Orientations to the Sociology of Education 

Ballantine & Spade (BB)

Race, Class, and Cultural Reproduction: Critical Theories in Urban Education, Walker

Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education, Gloria Ladson Billings and William F. Tate IV

What is Critical Race Theory and Why Is It Under Attack? EdWeek

To Do:

• Discussion Board 1 Assignment due 2/24 by 11:59pm

 

2/25: Capitalism & Social Class Injustices in Education

The Unspoken Secret of Capitalism Destroying Education, Medium 

How Capitalism Undermines Progressive Education Reform, Jacobin 

Disaster Capitalism is Coming for Public Education, Jacobin 

There is a Movement to Privatize Public Education in America. Here is How Far It Has Gotten. The Washington Post. 

To Do:

• Discussion Board 2 Assignment due 3/3 by 11:59pm
• Will read in class (“You Self Centered Bastard” (an essay from the book I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux)

3/4: Race, Power, & Privilege in the Classroom and Beyond

The White Racial Frame & Systemic Racism by Joe Feagin 

Peggy McIntosh, Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (1989) 

Black Power Speech, Stokely Carmichael (Black Power Movement)

We Need to Start Telling the Truth About White Supremacy in Our Schools, James E. Ford

To Do:

• Discussion Board 3 Assignment due 3/10 by 11:59pm

3/11: Teaching and White Savior Films (no in person class–film will be streamed on Zoom platform) 

A Critical Look at the White Savior Character in Urban Education, Shannon Waite. Medium

To Do:

• Discussion Board 4 Assignment due 3/17 by 11:59pm
• Watch the film Freedom Writers on your own

3/18: Anti-Black Racism in Education

The Illumination of Blackness, Charles Mills (BB)

Challenging Anti-Black Racism in Everyday Teaching, Learning, and Leading: From Theory to Practice 

Anti-blackness and The Way Forward for K-12 Schooling, Brookings 

‘If Your Hair Is Relaxed, White People Are Relaxed. If Your Hair Is Nappy, They’re Not Happy’: Black Hair as a Site of ‘Post-Racial’ Social Control in English Schools, Salisbury and Connelly

To Do:

• Discussion Board 5 Assignment due 3/24 by 11:59pm

 

3/25: School to Prison Pipeline and Mass Incarceration (no in person class–film will be streamed over Zoom platform)

To Do:

• Watch either Ava Duvernay’s 13th or the Kalief Browder Documentary on your own
• Discussion Board 6 Assignment due 3/31 by 11:59pm

4/1: School to Prison Pipeline and (Rethinking) Mass Incarceration

Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Davis (chapter TBD)

Mass Incarceration” as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity by Dylan Rodríguez

Rethinking Schools Editorial: Stop the School to Prison Pipeline

Collaborative research for justice and multi-issue movement building: Challenging discriminatory policing, school closures, and youth unemployment, Glass and Stoudt

To Do:

• Discussion Board 7 Assignment due 4/7 by 11:59pm
• 1st Reflection Due

 

4/8: Patriarchy & Gendered Injustices in Education

The Age of Patriarchy: How An Unfashionable Idea Became A Rallying Cry for Feminism Today, The Guardian

Failing to Teach About The Patriarchy in Schools Is Failing Everyone, Medium 

What Does It Mean To By Young, Black, and Female in America? Larry Ferlazzo, Education Week

Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery by Connie Wun 

To Do:

• Discussion Board 8 Assignment due 4/28 by 11:59pm

4/15: SPRING BREAK

4/22: SPRING BREAK 

4/29: Queering Schooling 

“But I’m Not Gay!” What Straight Teachers Need to Know About Queer Theory, Chapter 1 

What’s It Like to Be Out As LGBTQ at School, Nick Fiorellini, Teen Vogue

LGBTQ Students of Color Speak Up, Letisha Marrero, The Education Trust 

To Do:

• Discussion Board 9 Assignment due 5/5 by 11:59pm

5/6: The Question of (Dis)ability 

• Critical Disability Theory as a theoretical framework for disability studies
• School choice or the politics of desperation? Black and Latinx parents of students with dis/abilities selecting charter schools in Chicago, Waitoller & Super
• Students with Disabilities Deserve Inclusion

To Do:

• Discussion Board 10 Assignment due 5/12 by 11:59pm

5/13: Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know

Hashtag Syllabus, Contexts Magazine, Alyssa Lyons (to be posted on Blackboard)

To Do:

• We will watch the following videos during class:

3 ways to speak English, Jamila Lyiscott

Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color | Jamila Lyiscott | TEDxTheBenjaminSchool

The Cost of Code Switching | Chandra Arthur | TEDxOrlando

 

5/20: 2nd Reflection Due