The history of racism in education dates back centuries ago. Racism is a significant factor that has lead to the systematic oppression of groups of people of color. From the beginning of American times since slavery, African Americans did not have the same rights to education. 

Even after slavery was abolished, there were still many discriminatory practices that were continued. This included lower funding for schools in black and hispanic areas.  The landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation in schools unconstitutional, but progress towards desegregation was slow and met with a lot of resistance. 

This article talks a lot about testing. In this article specifically, the testing was the SAT. The scores in each subject were compared based on the races of the students. The findings showed that students who were white or asian on average tested higher than those of hispanic and African American backgrounds. One of the only things that I would critique about this article is that it really does not go into depth about why this may occur. However, I believe the reason for this is money. Schools with prodominantly hispanic and African American students tend to get lower funding; and/or the funding goes to other aspects other than education. 

This article goes much deeper into what we had discussed in the last slide. The author, Andre M. Perry, did a lot of research as to why and how we can improve the testing numbers for kids with different races. He supports the reasoning for the difference in testing scores based on race as having to do with wealth and the focus of money to these educational resources. He says a quote that really stood out which says, "We should be trying to level the playing field by providing historically disenfranchised people opportunities to build wealth rather than retrofitting test results around inequality." In conclusion, this article talks mostly about how the wealth gap, which is caused largely by racism, has significant implicaitons on the quality of education that our kid are getting. This is demonstrated in testing scores and numbers. 

This book was about race and how systematic racism and inequalities are represented in schools and the education of the children themselves. This is an important quote to take from the book, "Embedded racial inequities produce unequal opportunities for educational success. Systematic policies, practices and stereotypes work against children and youth of color to affect their opportunity for achieving educational success." When kids of all races are provided with the same resources and funding, there is no mathematical or statistical difference to tell them apart. The importance is how and when the money is spent. A statistic that really shook me was the 10% stat. This stat says, "The wealthiest 10% of U.S. school districts spend nearly 10 times more than the poorest 10%."