Education and Social Justice

Peruse this article about our next Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. While you read it, think about how social justice ties in with education. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/us/politics/betsy-devos-nominee-education-secretary.html

Read this article on the current state of public education and more specifically what it's like for underrepresented minority students: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/public-schools-minority-students_b_1408878.html

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/06/how-funding-inequalities-push-poor-students-further-behind/395348/

Skim through the article and look closely at the graphs. What do you see?

https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/