Episode 8 Resources

Episode 8 Resources

During the Obama Administration, policies like Race to the Top – as well as the blossoming of No Child Left Behind consequences, made funding available but also shaped school programs in ways that constrained the prerogatives of educators:

https://www.tn.gov/news/2010/3/29/tennessee-wins-race-to-the-top-grant.html

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/metro-nashville-paid-a-foreign-company-to-study-our-schools-so-why-did-its-reports/article_2fa4e0cd-832e-55cf-9f43-5cbca98b94fe.html

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/mnps-cleaning-house-at-lowest-performing-schools/article_0e6c354f-f337-558e-b8f9-b1903df7a59d.html

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/metro-nashville-paid-a-foreign-company-to-study-our-schools-so-why-did-its-reports/article_2fa4e0cd-832e-55cf-9f43-5cbca98b94fe.html

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/08/27/pinkston-failing-schools-demand-board-response/14680021/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/08/19/metro-nashvilles-low-rated-schools-double/14303981/

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/8/22524765/school-districts-state-takeovers-academic-success-research-studies

Nashville news outlets documented the development and politics of “The Plan”:

           http://tnedreport.com/2014/09/

https://www.theeastnashvillian.com/to-choose-or-not-to-choose/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2014/09/11/east-nashville-parent-leaders-ask-register-input-choice-plan/15488155/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/09/12/register-pledges-meet-east-nashville-parents/15538045/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2014/09/14/work-together-priority-schools-will-shine/15594877/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/09/23/jesse-register-seek-extension-metro-schools-director/16126745/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2014/10/09/improve-schools-east-nashville-kids/16895787/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/10/15/divided-message-e-nashville-groups-risk/17333257/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/11/18/teachers-union-opposes-choice-east-nashville-zone/19221837/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/11/18/east-nashville-united-releases-own-schools-plan/19239631/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2014/11/24/metro-moves-ahead-changes-struggling-schools/19445741/

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2015/05/12/east-nashville-schools-plan-approved/27215717/

https://www.mnps.org/news/archived_news/putting-east-high-and-east-middle-back-at-samesite

Bailey’s success:

           https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2015/8/11/21092359/in-memphis-and-nashville-here-are-the-schools-eligible-and-no-longer-eligible-for-state-intervention

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hKoDnE5sBRT9uhZZFHiDlmxIGGT0zIyy/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FI_Rw7oObXRe_bmZ2aSwxRBl1lQtL2Hj/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v8mZDiKRG4W5FDe3GIMIPkVfv8QxZXjl/view

Educational researchers and theorists have written about the complex motivations of school reform and racism, including in Nashville.   For a fuller understanding, read

Lisa Delpit, Other People’s Children:  Cultural Conflict in the Classroom. The New Press, 2006.

Lisa Delpit, Multiplication is for White People:  Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children. The New Press, 2013.

Ansley Erickson, Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits.  University of Chicago Press, 2016

David Labaree, Someone Has to Fail. Harvard University Press, 2012.

David Tyack and Larry Cuban, Tinkering Toward Utopia:  A Century of Public School Reform. Harvard University Press, 1997.

Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School.  The New Press, 2023.