Join Chicago Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development Micere Keels for a discussion of Chicago's failure to address the many disparities in education as we imagine Chicago's future after the COVID-19 pandemic as The Inequitable City. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated of the inequities of the education system as we know it—how can Chicago emerge from the pandemic and begin to repair an education system that is broken as we know it?
Micere Keels is an Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, focusing on understanding how race-ethnicity and poverty structure the supports and challenges that children and youth experience. She is particularly interested in how family and neighborhood inequality are associated with the sorting of children into different quality schools, and the interventions that can improve their educational outcomes.
Following this session we hope you consider further inquiry into this topic, some of our recommendations include:
- Parable of the Sower
- Parable of the Talents
- New Redlining Maps Show Chicago Housing Discrimination
- Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.
- A Whole School Approach to Improving the Outcomes of Children Living in High Crime Communities
- Campus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students’ Search for Community at Historically White Universities.