Penn State

Consortium forSocial Movements and Education
Research and Practice

Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality

Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality

Ben Kirshner
2015
2015

Abstract

This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect survey data revealing the prevalence of racism and xenophobia.

Abstract

This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect survey data revealing the prevalence of racism and xenophobia.

Social Movements

Anti-Racism, Youth Activism

Keywords

Democracy, North America, Public Schooling, Race

Theme

Social Movements Within; Through; and for Public Education