{"id":4283,"date":"2003-09-10T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2003-09-10T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T12:16:07","slug":"youth-and-the-history-of-desegregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4283","title":{"rendered":"youth and the history of desegregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School desegregation is a public issue that involves<\/p>\n<p>and affects youth. It&#8217;s a vital contemporary matter that requires<\/p>\n<p>historical background to understand. It continues to provoke debates<\/p>\n<p>among reasonable and well-intentioned people, who disagree about both<\/p>\n<p>goals and solutions. In all these respects, it is an ideal topic for<\/p>\n<p>sustained work in schools as a key component of civic education.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, we worked with students at a local high school in Maryland<\/p>\n<p>to create an interactive, deliberative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princegeorges.org\/history.htm\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>about the epic history of desegregation in their own district. (&quot;We&quot;<\/p>\n<p>means the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracycollaborative.org\">Democracy<\/p>\n<p>Collaborative<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puaf.umd.edu\/IPPP\">Institute<\/p>\n<p>for Philosophy &amp; Public Policy<\/a>, both at the University of<\/p>\n<p>Maryland.) We have now collaborated with NABRE, the Network of Alliances<\/p>\n<p>Bridging Race and Ethnicity (pronounced &#8220;neighbor&#8221;), to<\/p>\n<p>develop a plan for a replicating the same project in many school districts.<\/p>\n<p>This year is the 50th anniversary of <em>Brown v Board of Education<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>the first of a series of 50th anniversaries of events in the Civil<\/p>\n<p>Rights Era. Coming to understand the difficult choices made in one&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>own community seems both a good way to commemorate this history and<\/p>\n<p>an excellent foundation for making choices today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School desegregation is a public issue that involves and affects youth. It&#8217;s a vital contemporary matter that requires historical background to understand. It continues to provoke debates among reasonable and well-intentioned people, who disagree about both goals and solutions. In all these respects, it is an ideal topic for sustained work in schools as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-high-school-civics-class"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}