Aud, Susan and Fox, Mary Ann. Status and Trends in Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups (NCES 2010-015). U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S Government Printing Office.
83.1% of black parents, 75.6% of Hispanic parents, and 59.0% of Asian parents checking homework compared to 57.2% of white parents (Aud and Fox).
“Inequality.” Entry 1. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.
“Inequality: noun, an unfair situation in which some people have more rights or better opportunities than other people” (“Inequality. def. 1).
The Leadership Conference. “Brown v. Board of Education.” The Leadership Conference. The Leadership Conference, n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the practice of ‘separate but equal’ was unconstitutional and schools’ nation wide would have to begin integration in the case Brown. v Board of Education (The Leadership Conference).
The Leadership Conference. “Resegregation.” The Leadership Conference. The Leadership Conference, n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.
Without the harsh enforcement of integration as before, school districts began to pay less attention to the demographics of their schools, and without much notice, schools slowly began to become segregated once again (The Leadership Conference).
Rich, Adrienne. “Taking Women Students Seriously.” Race, Class, and Gender. Ed. Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1992. 390-96. Print.
If there is any misleading concept, it is that of “coeducation”: that because women and men are sitting in the same classrooms, hearing the same lectures, reading the same books, performing the same laboratory experiments, they are receiving an equal education. They are not, first because the content of education itself validates men even as it invalidates women. It’s very message is that men have been the shapers, and the thinkers of the world, and that this is only natural (393).
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