Public Education Today, Still Separate
and Still Unequal
Monday, October 19, 2015, 7:00-8:45 PM, Olin 115
The discussion dinner preceding the talk, at 5:30 PM, will be at the
Wold Minerva House.
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More than 60 years after the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine in public education, our schools remain profoundly segregated and unequal. New federal initiatives and billions of new investments in public education are not aimed at changing this state of affairs, but rather serve mainly to promote free-market approaches to school governance and management. While privatization is often sold as a means of achieving racial justice, the results are precisely the opposite. Brian Jones taught elementary grades for nine years in New York City’s public schools, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He was the Green Party’s 2014 candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York. Brian co-narrated the film, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, and has contributed to several books, including What’s Race Got To Do With It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. Brian’s commentary and writing have been featured in a wide range of forums, including MSNBC, The New York Times Room for Debate Blog, Democracy Now! and the International Socialist Review. Brian has also lent his voice to several audiobooks, including The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World and Howard Zinn’s one-man play, Marx in Soho. Brian is the recipient of a 2012 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship. |
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