Wiring Culture Circles: Fostering Intergenerational Dialogues on Providing Quality Education in America’s Public Schools

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27
  In Roundtable Session: Sociocultural Context of Schooling

Abstract

The movement for Quality Education as a Constitutional Right (QECR) is a national grassroots effort to guarantee, a quality education for all citizens. To add our own thrust to the QECR movement, we brought together educators and students in an urban center to discuss what it meant to provide and experience quality education in the United States. We used a media text, the television show The Wire to help us attempt to read and transform our own sociocultural contexts of schooling and those of others. It discusses what the implications of such conversations might be in the quest to invigorate conversations about QECR.

Authors

• Eli Tucker-Raymond, TERC

• Christopher George Wright, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville