A PRRAC & Teaching for Change Publication (2004). Synopsis: Interactive, interdisciplinary lessons, readings, photographs, primary documents, and interviews, with sections on education, labor, citizenship, culture, and reflections on teaching about the Civil Rights Movement. By putting the Movement back into civil rights teaching, we hope to help students find their … [Read more...] about Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (PRRAC & Teaching for Change, 2004)
Publications
Fragmented: Improving Education for Mobile Students (Lynora Williams, October 2003)
A PRRAC Publication (October 2003). By Lynora Williams, with a foreword by Wendy Puriefoy of The Public Education Network. Synopsis: Drawing on the material from the Winter 2003 Journal of Negro Education (“Student Mobility: How Some Children Get Left Behind”), co-edited by PRRAC’s Founder/past Director of Research Chester Hartman, Fragmented outlines the specific classroom … [Read more...] about Fragmented: Improving Education for Mobile Students (Lynora Williams, October 2003)
Student Mobility: How Some Children Get Left Behind (Chester Hartman & Todd Michael Franke, January 2003)
By Chester Hartman and Todd Michael Franke (UCLA) of winter 2003 issue of The Journal of Negro Education. Excerpt: "High student mobility is a serious, under-recognized education problem. Classrooms, particularly those in low-income and minority areas, may have 50-75% turnover within the academic year. Homeless, immigrant, farmworker, special education, and foster children … [Read more...] about Student Mobility: How Some Children Get Left Behind (Chester Hartman & Todd Michael Franke, January 2003)
Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem (Chester Hartman & David Robinson, 2003)
By Chester Hartman & David Robinson of Legal Services for NYC. Appeared as an article in Housing Policy Debate (2003). Synopsis: The article reviews definitional issues, the available data on evictions — particularly as they affect lower-income and minority tenants — and model efforts to reduce the incidence and impact of evictions. The article ends with a call for … [Read more...] about Evictions: The Hidden Housing Problem (Chester Hartman & David Robinson, 2003)
Millennial Misfire: the Millennial Housing Commission Report (Chester Hartman, July 2002)
By Chester Hartman. Published in Shelterforce (July 2002). Description: Review of the Millennial Housing Commission’s report, “Meeting Our Nation’s Housing Challenges.” Read the Article... … [Read more...] about Millennial Misfire: the Millennial Housing Commission Report (Chester Hartman, July 2002)
