Books such as Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and unfullfilled hopes for education reform by Derrick Bell and Martha Minow’s In Brown’s Wake: legacies of America’s educational landmark will be instrumental in providing historical and cultural context as well as identifying the methods in which de facto segregation has taken place in the past. From there, I hope to use statistical reports of test scores and income as well as a couple of investigative academic articles to narrow my scope and explain just how this process takes place in and around Birmingham. Thus, the information from the books will provide the background and a general description of the ways in which this can occur, while the second half of the essay will grow increasingly pointed, centering on how specific problems identified actually present themselves. I would also love to be able to interview a superintendent of one of the schools or do some digging in the Alabama state legislatures use of education funding to deepen the analysis, but I may not find one willing to provide comment and the money trail left by the education budget is often unclear and difficult to
Books such as Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and unfullfilled hopes for education reform by Derrick Bell and Martha Minow’s In Brown’s Wake: legacies of America’s educational landmark will be instrumental in providing historical and cultural context as well as identifying the methods in which de facto segregation has taken place in the past. From there, I hope to use statistical reports of test scores and income as well as a couple of investigative academic articles to narrow my scope and explain just how this process takes place in and around Birmingham. Thus, the information from the books will provide the background and a general description of the ways in which this can occur, while the second half of the essay will grow increasingly pointed, centering on how specific problems identified actually present themselves. I would also love to be able to interview a superintendent of one of the schools or do some digging in the Alabama state legislatures use of education funding to deepen the analysis, but I may not find one willing to provide comment and the money trail left by the education budget is often unclear and difficult to