• Ghosts in the Schoolyard

  • Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
  • De: Eve L. Ewing
  • Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
  • Duración: 6 h y 48 m
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (143 calificaciones)

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard

De: Eve L. Ewing
Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together.

Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open?

Ewing's answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Black communities see the closing of their schools - schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs - as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.

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"Ewing is a Harvard-trained sociologist as well as a poet and an educator (among other things), and this comes through in her lively and accessible writing." (Booklist, starred review)

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Phenomenal work

Extraordinarily told with gripping narratives and poignant research. Should be assigned reading for teachers and those going into public policy.

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I found the subject matter to be a very emotional experience for me! Great research!

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Powerful story - Speaks Truth to Power

Eve Ewing is a phenomenal writer and Lisa Renee Pitts is brings so much life to Eve’s words in her reading. I learned so much about systemic racism and the history of segregationist policies in Chicago through this book. Great entry point for some, great new chapter in the ongoing story of race in American education for others. Highly recommend.

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