Policy Topic

Racial Education in K-12 – Shreya Kannan

Topic Statement: I chose to explore the choices made in racial and cultural education and policy surrounding what can be covered in these curriculums in American K-12 schools.

Sources:

1. Stairs, Andrea J., Kelly A. Donnell, and Alyssa Hadley. Dunn. Urban Teaching in America : Theory, Research, and Practice in K-12 Classrooms. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, Inc, 2012.

2. Chapman, Thandeka K., Makeba Jones, Ramon Stephens, Dolores Lopez, Kirk D. Rogers, and James Crawford. “A Necessary Pairing: Using Academic Outcomes and Critical Consciousness to Dismantle Curriculum as the Property of Whiteness in K-12 Ethnic Studies.” Equity & excellence in education 53, no. 4 (2020): 569–582.

3. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/culturally-responsive-teaching-culturally-responsive-pedagogy/2022/04

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/education/learning/teachers-classroom-cultural-differences.html

5. Tropp, Linda R., and Christina L. Rucinski. “How Implicit Racial Bias and Concern about Appearing Racist Shape K-12 Teachers’ Race Talk with Students.” Social psychology of education 25, no. 4 (2022): 697–717.

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