Right to a Quality Education
Maria and Julio are joined by Jon Hale, professor at the University of Illinois, and author of the new book, \u201cThe Choice We Face: How Segregation, Race and Power Have Shaped America\u2019s Most Controversial Education Reform Movement,\u201d and Leigh Patel, professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, and author of the new book, \u201cNo Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education.\u201d They get into the history of structural racism in the U.S. public education system and discuss the controversy around critical race theory. ITT Staff Picks:\xa0 - Nicole Carr writes about what it was like to navigate the decision of sending her children back to school in a school district that wouldn\u2019t reinstate masking in this piece for ProPublica.\xa0\xa0 - \u201cYou might even say that we\u2019ve always had race theory in the classroom: the teaching, implicitly and sometimes explicitly, of a white-centric view of history,\u201d writes Anthony Conwright in this piece for The New Republic.\xa0 - Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author and professor of constitutional law at John Jay College, writes about her own experience with bussing and the state of school segregation twenty years later, in this 2019 piece for Time Magazine.\xa0 Photo credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski \xa0
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