Adrienne Green The Cost Of Discrimination In Education
Discrimination in Education
Slavery, segregation, the Jim Crow era, lynching, and discrimination. These are problems the black community faced in the past and also face in modern day age.. Although things have progresses for the better, there is always room for more and more improvement. For example, not many people understand how institutional racism can affect the way many African American children learn. Two articles that talk about this topic are “The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism” by Adrienne Green and “Yes, Schools Do Discriminate Against Students of Color” by Joy Resmovits.
The article “The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism”, which was written by Adrienne Green, speaks about the struggles of African Americans trying to get an education at a college or university. The author brings in statistics which show that African Americans tend to have a worse college experience than white people. Near the end of the article, Green begins to talk about how universities have not done anything to “shield students of color from the effects of societal racism (Green).”
The second article titled “Yes, Schools Do Discriminate Against Students of Color” by Joy Resmovits talks about the school-to-prison pipeline for …show more content…
Joy Resmovits is currently writing about education at the LA Times. She spent 4 years at Huffington post writing about education. She is a “Columbia University Spencer Fellow.” Her writing has been on the “Wall Street Journal, the Forward and the New York Daily News.” She also “serves on the board of trustees for the Columbia Daily Spectator and the Education Writers Assn.’s journalist advisory board”(Resmovits, “Joy Resmovits”). The background of Joy Resmovits is more decorated than Adrienne Green. She also seems to have more experience than
Slavery, segregation, the Jim Crow era, lynching, and discrimination. These are problems the black community faced in the past and also face in modern day age.. Although things have progresses for the better, there is always room for more and more improvement. For example, not many people understand how institutional racism can affect the way many African American children learn. Two articles that talk about this topic are “The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism” by Adrienne Green and “Yes, Schools Do Discriminate Against Students of Color” by Joy Resmovits.
The article “The Cost of Balancing Academia and Racism”, which was written by Adrienne Green, speaks about the struggles of African Americans trying to get an education at a college or university. The author brings in statistics which show that African Americans tend to have a worse college experience than white people. Near the end of the article, Green begins to talk about how universities have not done anything to “shield students of color from the effects of societal racism (Green).”
The second article titled “Yes, Schools Do Discriminate Against Students of Color” by Joy Resmovits talks about the school-to-prison pipeline for …show more content…
Joy Resmovits is currently writing about education at the LA Times. She spent 4 years at Huffington post writing about education. She is a “Columbia University Spencer Fellow.” Her writing has been on the “Wall Street Journal, the Forward and the New York Daily News.” She also “serves on the board of trustees for the Columbia Daily Spectator and the Education Writers Assn.’s journalist advisory board”(Resmovits, “Joy Resmovits”). The background of Joy Resmovits is more decorated than Adrienne Green. She also seems to have more experience than