Students Talk Back To A Segregated Nation Summary

Alonso, Gaston, et al. Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education. New York University Press, 2009. Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su, and Jeanne Theoharis, professors of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, provide their personal accounts on the reality of neglected urban schools and communities. Specifically, Noel S. Anderson, whose academic research focuses on career and post-secondary pathways for low-income youth, discusses his experience of how he and the other students suffered in segregated schools in New York City as he was growing up. Faced with discouraging conditions, such as low-quality education, amongst students who are primarily Black and Latino, he reminds us of the progress New York City has yet to make in order to provide a quality education for all students. This book provides support for the claim that schools are segregated even in urban communities, like New York City; specifically, because of segregated neighborhoods and failure of education policy.

Gomez-Velez, Natalie. “Can Universal Pre-K Overcome Extreme Race and Income Segregation

The Importance of Legal Infrastructure and the Limits of the Law.” Cleveland State Law Review, vol. 63, no. 2, 2015, p. 319. Natalie Gomez-Velez, professor of Law at the City University of New York. School of Law, focuses on ways to approach and serve low-income children in the schools of New York City, specifically segregated schools. Gomez-Velez addresses the inequality amongst schools in New York City. Furthermore, the unequal distribution of resources and opportunities for certain groups of students. This article supports the acknowledgement of New York City’s segregated school system, as well as the social and economic factors that contribute to it, to better ensure that New York City’s neediest children gain access to quality