Open AccessStudent Voices in the Movement for Integration and Equity
Author(s) -
Sophie Mode,
Dulce Michelle
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2020.843
Subject(s) - equity (law) , feeling , social justice , sociology , racial integration , media studies , economic justice , political science , public relations , pedagogy , gender studies , psychology , criminology , law , social psychology
In a time when equity and justice are at the forefront of conversations across the nation, it is essential that the voices of students are not ignored or tokenized. New York City has the most segregated public school system in the nation, more segregated now than in the 1960s. Hundreds of thousands of students spend every day in segregated classrooms, and yet our voices are not the focus. Students are powerful. Students are knowledgeable. Students are passionate. Students are the ones directly feeling the effects of an immensely segregated and inequitable system.