1. The ‘isms’ in Education
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2. make assumptions about people’s abilities and characteristics
Classism
A form of oppression in which individuals and institutions…
assign value to people
&
make assumptions about people’s abilities and characteristics
because of the prejudices related to social class.

3. Classism occurs through…
individual attitudes and behaviors
the policies and practices that are set up to benefit upper classes at the expense of the lower classes, resulting in drastic income and wealth inequality
the rationales and institutions that support classist systems and unequal valuing of people
the culture that perpetuates the above-mentioned mechanisms
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4. How do you think
we fund
our public schools?

5. Children in American Schools
If funding for schools was based not on local property taxes but on equal funding per student, how long would it take to bring the worst schools up to acceptable conditions?
What would happen in the richest schools when funding was inevitably lessened?
Why has the current system of school funding, based on local property taxes, been allowed to exist for so long?

6. Poverty in affluent countries:
the U.S. ranked #28
U.S. Poverty = less than $22,000 per year
Americans live in poverty = 15%
U.S. children in poverty = 24%
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7. Poverty in U.S. Schools Students on free & reduced lunch = 51%
AL students on free & reduced lunch = 58%
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8. Across Region in U.S. Schools
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9. Poverty by Race in U.S. Schools
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10. David Berliner Educational Psychologist
Professor at Arizona State University
National Education Policy Center
Author of:
The Manufactured Crisis
Collateral Damage: The Effects of High-stakes Testing on America’s Schools

11. The Effects of poverty How Poverty Effects Student Achievement (33-38)
How Neighborhoods Effect the Poor (38-43)
How Income Effects Behavior & Achievement (43-48)
What Can We Do? (48-53)

12. What can you do about Classism?
The Question of Class by Paul Gorski

13. What does inequality look like?
Wealth Inequality in America

14. What is Race? Explore the 10 questions on Is Race for Real?.
Complete the activity on Sorting People.
Watch two slideshows in Me, My Race & I.
Do the 3 modules in Where Race Lives.
Journal your thoughts and findings. Place this in the center section of your portfolio.

15. What is the difference between Race & Racism?

16. Race & Racism
Race is a group of categories socially constructed by us. It is not genetic.
Racism, however, is the harmful effects that result from believing that race means something. It is a form of oppression based on the perception of one’s race, which includes “negative or destructive behaviors that can result in denying some groups’ life necessities as well as the privileges, rights, and opportunities enjoyed by other groups” (Sonia Nieto, p. 42)

17. Sonia Nieto
Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Focuses on diversity in relation to culture and language and inclusion/exclusion in the public schools
Author of Affirming Diversity
Diversity & Thriving in Schools