Sparking Equity
Sparking Equity brings to you the most creative thinking and best strategies for ensuring that all students succeed, with a focus on low-income students and students of color.
Join hosts Pedro Noguera and Lande Ajose as they explore key issues such as restoring arts and music education in schools, how to engage parents in their children’s education in a positive way, coping with mental health challenges on college campuses, and what's next on the student loan relief battleground. Executive producer and correspondent for Sparking Equity is veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg, director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative.
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Sparking Equity
Beyond Conflict: Engaging Parents in Schools
In this episode of "Sparking Equity, " host Pedro Noguera, dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, focuses on attacks on schools around issues such as mask mandates and critical race theory -- and how parents and caregivers can be involved in schools in positive ways that contribute to their children's success.
Pedro talks with Carl Cohn, esteemed educator and former member of the California State Board of Education and Joann Mickens, executive director of Parents for Public Schools, a national advocacy organization in Jackson, Mississippi. He also interviewed Tina Certain, at the time board chair of the Alachua County Public Schools in Gainesville Florida, who was able to beat back efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and allies to unseat her and the board majority.
What can schools do? Executive producer Louis Freedberg reports from Magnolia High School in the Anaheim Union High School District. It has made it a top priority to create a welcoming environment for parents which district leaders believe has helped it avoid conflicts roiling adjoining districts in Orange County and around the nation.
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Brought to you by the Advancing Education Success Initiative -- Coby McDonald, Producer; Louis Freedberg, Executive Producer and Correspondent
