NC State School of Education will present the third annual Don C. Locke Symposium at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18 and it will be shown live via video stream in Ferguson Auditorium on the A-B Tech Asheville Campus. It is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
National Academy of Education President Gloria Ladson-Billings will give the keynote address titled, “It’s ALL de jure: Turning a Critical Eye on the Northern Strategy.”
The standard narrative about school segregation draws a dividing line between the North and South and claims that the South engaged in a deliberate strategy of legal apartheid by establishing separate and unequal schools. On the other hand, the North was said to be a part of a de facto school segregation project that “just happened” to be segregated because of neighborhood segregation. This talk argues Northern complicity in ensuring that Black students would not be able to access quality education.
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Locke served on the A-B Tech Board of Trustees from 2010 until his passing in 2016.