Education denied: What should reparations look like?

Daarel Burnette II of Education Week delves into the history of Black communities demanding education and school boards conspiring to deprive them of opportunities and resources. We zoom in on Virginia’s reparations to Black citizens, now in their 60’s, who were excluded from schools when Prince Edward County shut its schools to avoid integration. Mr. Burnette, a “military brat,” theorizes about why children of Black military families do so much better academically than their civilian peers. Overview 00:00-00:50 Intros 00:50-02:06 Prince Edward County and its significance 02:06-03:31 Virginia’s reparations fund 03:31-07:09 Reactions of reparations recipients 07:09-09:44 Lessons from other state reparations programs 09:44-13:28 Essential elements of a reparations program 13:28-17:24 Overtaxing and underfunding 17:24-19:28 Black Lives Matter movement and educational equity 19:28-22:00 Teachers’ beliefs about genetics and achievement 22:00-24:08 Coleman report and assumptions about Black families 24:08-26:05 History of Black demands for public education; Freedmen’s schools; Rosenwald schools; attacks on Black schools by KKK and White Citizens Councils 26:05-29:00 Students from Black military families outperform civilian students; achievement gap almost eliminated in Department of Defense schools 29:00-35:25 Military base interventions to improve schools serving military families 35:25-38:48 Integration blinds us to what happens afterward; not the end of the story  38:48-44:30 Freedmen’s schools and Rosenwald schools 44:30-46:31 Why knowledge of history is so essential 46:31-48:00 Outro Transcript Click here to see the full transcription of this episode. 

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