On a new Teachers' Lounge, it's Cynthia Taines. She’s an associate professor at Northern Illinois University in the college of education, who specializes in the sociology of education and education policy.
She’s got a new book called “The Metropolitan Community: Partnering for Equality Across the Educational Divide."
Picture this: two public high schools, 25 minutes apart. One is in a wealthy, suburban district. The other is an urban, lower-income school in Chicago.
Geographically very close, but worlds away when it comes to how much money the schools can spend on their students and the resources and services they can provide them.
Cynthia’s project brought groups of students from each school together where they saw, for the first time, the full disparity of how different their schools were, and then teamed up to advocate for state policies to change how public education is funded in Illinois.
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Educator(s) in this episode:
Cynthia Taines
Music: Our show's theme music is from the northern Illinois-based band Kindoves, featuring the songs "Popn," "Origins" and "Quiche." You can find more of their music on their SoundCloud page. You can also listen to the episode of WNIJ's Sessions from Studio A where they were featured.
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