Educating for the Status Quo
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The debate around the specialized high school admissions test in New York City only reflects a greater issue about inclusion and diversity in schools nationwide. Maria and Julio are joined by Reema Amin, reporter at Chalkbeat NY, and Maria Bautista, campaigns director at the Alliance for Quality Education, to discuss how schools are leaving out POC students and the role access plays in education.
ITT Staff Picks:
- Read Reema Amin’s reporting on the lobbying groups working to keep the SHSAT in New York City schools, via Chalkbeat.
- The New York Times breaks down why schools are still segregated in 2019.
- This piece on how economic and academic segregation occurs on the inside, within the same schools, via The Atlantic.
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| 0:25.0 | So this idea that like we don't have like the brain power, the community power, |
| 0:30.0 | intelligence to like think of other ways that we're going to evaluate children is |
| 0:34.6 | really flawed and it's in service again to white supremacy. |
| 0:38.0 | Yo, what's up? Welcome to In the Thick. This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. I'm Maria |
| 0:45.4 | Noosa. And I'm Juhlovaela. And here in our Harlem studio, the immigrant studio, we have two powerful women. |
| 0:53.4 | Rima Amin is a reporter at Chalkbeat, New York. |
| 0:55.8 | Hey, Rima, welcome to the show. |
| 0:57.3 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 0:58.9 | And also joining us in the studio is my Tokaya, |
| 1:02.1 | which is Mexican for namesake, so that means her name is |
| 1:05.0 | Maria Bautista. Surprise! Surprise! Campaigns director at Alliance for Quality |
| 1:09.7 | Education right here in New York City. Welcome to the show, Tokaya. Hey, hey, fam. |
| 1:14.0 | But where are you from? |
| 1:15.0 | What's your- Does it Dominican- |
| 1:17.0 | So, Tokaya doesn't mean anything to you. |
| 1:19.0 | Or it does. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes, it does. |
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