Race is influential but not determinative in school change: it slows and complicates reform without dictating outcomes¶
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q1 i? Race slows down, frustrates, and complicates school change processes, but does not have to dictate them unless people allow it to. → Payne 2005
Evidence¶
Payne 2005¶
Payne, Charles. (2005). Still Crazy after All These Years: Race in the Chicago School System. Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Illinois at Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/still-crazy-after-all-these-years-race-chicago-school-system
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Interpretive conclusion drawn from a case vignette of a white Comer-project facilitator in a South Side school who openly confronted parental racial hostility, asked for six months to do her job, and a year later was arguably the most socially central person in the building.
"Race is influential but not determinative. It slows the process down, it frustrates and complicates, but it does not have to dictate unless we somehow allow it to."
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Related Claims¶
- School turnaround is a gradual process rather than an immediate event triggered by replacing staff or leadership — related
- Payne suspects that a school's inability to talk openly about race predicts its capacity for change — related
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Race is influential but not determinative in school change: it slows and complicates reform without dictating outcomes |
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Race is influential but not determinative in school change: it slows and complicates reform without dictating outcomes |
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