Income and Education

Day One

• 1. Intro Questions

     • Do you think that education is a means to increase your income?

     • Do you think there are inequities in the public education system?

     • Do you think all economic classes have fair access to high quality education and income mobility?

  2. Review of some equity language.

1. Jeopardy

Team 1-400

Team 2-200

Team 3-100

Team 4-300

Questions gone:

Poverty 100,500

RGE 200,300,400

CE 300

EoE 100

CoE 100,300,400

Day Two

• 1. Debate Introduction

  2. Choose Roles

  3. Finish Jeopardy

  4. Reflection

     • Return to your intro questions and answer them again.

  5. Research

Day Three

• 1. Debate Research

Day Four

1. Debate

   1. Reflection

      • Write a paragraph explaining your answer to the debate question.

   2. Jonathan Kozol Reading Page 1, 2, 3, 4

• • 1. What are your initial thoughts or feelings?

    2. Can you relate to any of the experiences described in the passage?

    3. Are there any parts of the passage that especially struck you?

    4. If you attended this school, would you feel optimistic that you could live a successful life once you graduated? Why?

    5. What are some ways that this school could be improved?

POverty Game

Articles

• Socioeconomic Integration in Schools

• NY Times Class Matters

• Class Matters-Social Class and Education in the US

• Are you better off than your parents were?

  • Mixed economic class schools

  • Economic mobility artiocle

• Economic Mobility Project-Pew Research

  • Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

  • Summary of Recommendations

  • Executive Summary

  • Summary of Key Findings

TABLE 2.

INCOME MOBILITY TRANSITION MATRIX, 1968-91

Source: Gottschalk tabulations of the PSID, reported in Mishel, Bernstein, and Schmitt (1997).