Episode 1: Nikole Hannah-Jones

Homework

Don't worry! The word "homework" can create some stress, but no one is going to grade you. There is so much jam-packed into every TNQ episode that we want to give you as many resources as we can.

This week, we offer you opportunities to deepen your learning on educational inequities as we prep for the first episode of The Next Question with Nikole Hannah-Jones.

 THREE PODCASTS

• The Problem We All Live With (part one) / This American Life

• Sensitive, Not Scared / Death Sex Money Podcast

• School Segregation in 2018 / Why is This Happening? With Chris Hayes

THREE ARTICLES

• Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City / The New York Times

• White Parents are Enabling School Segregation- if it doesn’t hurt their own kids / NBC News THINK

• Brown at 60, Milliken at 40 / Harvard Ed. Magazine: A collection of essays from people impacted by the decision in Brown and Milliken.

THREE WAYS TO DIG DEEPER

• School Desegregation Orders Data

• Use these helpful charts to understand school funding in the state where you live

• Explore your school district and neighboring school districts to understand funding disparities where you live.  

TWO BOOKS

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing
  "Superbly written and researched…
  at once poignant and deeply troubling." - NPR
  
  Winner, 2019 O.L. Davis Jr. Outstanding Book Award from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, the book tells a story of love and loss, and the ongoing struggle of black people in America toward thriving livelihoods and self-determination.  

• Family Properties by Beryl Satter

  Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of Chicago's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation.
    

TWO PIECES OF ART

• The Problem We All Live With Hear the History »

• War on the Beknighted Explore the Exhibition »