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NYCoRE Summer Reading: Black Appetite. White Food.

Thank you everyone who voted for NYCoRE’s Summer Reading. There were so many great choices and suggestions. We need to keep organizing these gatherings and read them all. Let’s discuss when we come together.

We decided to start with New York’s Jamila Lyiscott’s Black Appetite. White Food.: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. We will have three potluck style meetups in Central Park in Strawberry Fields at the 72nd Street Entrance. You don’t need to attend them all, but we are more than welcome to and we will have unique discussions each time.

Thank you, everyone, who voted for NYCoRE’s Summer Reading. There were so many great choices and suggestions. We need to keep organizing these gatherings and read them all. Let’s discuss when we come together.

Please bring something to sit on and snacks or refreshments to share with others. Also, feel free to bring children and loved ones. Hopefully, the weather will be friendly, if not we will come up with a rain plan.

For a discounted copy of the book go to this website and use the discount code IRK69. https://www.routledge.com/Black-Appetite-White-Food-Issues-of-Race-Voice-and-Justice-Within/Lyiscott/p/book/9781138480667

The three dates are…
Tuesday, August 6th – 11 am to 1 pm
Tuesday, August 13th – 11 am to 1 pm
Saturday, August 31st – 11 am to 1 pm (Labor Day/Back to School Gathering)

Educadores On and Off the Island Working in Solidarity: A Conversation with Mercedes Martínez, President of the Federacíon de Maestros de Puerto Rico

Please join the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) as we host the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR) to discuss the present situation in Puerto Rico and the future of public education on the island. This is a family-friendly, fund-raising event: families with children are welcome and we ask participants to donate $5-10. Fund will go directly to FMPR to for their efforts in supporting el pueblo in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irene and María. Registration is required.
Date: Thursday, January 18th
Time: 5-7:30pm
Place: CUNY Graduate Center, room 4202
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3.13.13 Book Party & Conversation – Barbara Miner, Lessons from the Heartland

NYCoRE is proud to be co-sponsoring this event.

Please join us!

Miner.book.1871.cover.newpressTHE EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

7:00-8:30 PM

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER RM. 6304
365 FIFTH AVE. NYC

 

THE PUBLIC SCIENCE PROJECT BOOK SERIES: FAULT LINES OF OPPRESSION, FRONT LINES OF RESISTANCE

A BOOK PARTY AND CONVERSATION WITH BARBARA MINER

Former managing editor of RETHINKING SCHOOLS, and author of:

LESSONS FROM THE HEARTLAND: A TURBULENT HALF-CENTURY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AN ICONIC AMERICAN CITY

INTRODUCED BY STAN KARP,

DIRECTOR OF THE SECONDARY REFORM PROJECT FOR THE EDUCATION LAW CENTER

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

7:00-8:30 PM

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER RM. 6304
365 FIFTH AVE. NYC

Sponsored by The Public Science Project. Co-sponsored with The Critical Social and Environmental Psychology and The Urban Education Programs, NYCORE, (In)equality Matters Advanced Research Collaborative at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and The Urban Research-Based Action Network (URBAN).

This event will be live tweeted.

From an excerpt of Lessons from the Heartland at Rethinking Schools:

Wisconsin—and, in particular, urban Milwaukee—has been at the forefront of a half-century of public education experiments, from desegregation and “school choice” to vouchers and charter schools. Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, is both a narrative portrait of the struggles for equitable education in Milwaukee, and an exploration of the larger issues of race and class. This excerpt is an adaptation of chapters 17 and 25 (The New Press, 2013).

 

Vouchers Pass, Abandonment Begins

The long, painful, and conscious abandonment of Milwaukee’s public schools began in September 1990. Publicly funded vouchers for private schools evolved from conservative dream to on-the-ground reality.

Like most people, I didn’t give vouchers much thought when the Wisconsin Legislature passed the program. Vouchers were promoted as “choice” for poor people, an experimental effort under which public dollars would pay the tuition at a handful of private, nonreligious community schools serving a couple of hundred poor children. It seemed worthwhile and noncontroversial, akin to throwing a few dollars in the missionary collection basket at Sunday church.

My first encounter with vouchers, on Nov. 14, 1990, was unexpected but enlightening…

As a member of rethinking schools you can read the rest of the excerpt here

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