One Day College: Vox Populi: The Science of the Constitution & False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Pre-Schoolers

One Day College is a full day of immersive, virtual programming to enrich your mind and analyze current events. Learn from Dartmouth professors at the top of their fields about topics critical to the election cycle, from foreign policy to artificial intelligence.

“Vox Populi: The Science of the Constitution” Session Description

The Science of the Constitution will explain how the Constitution operates, revealing a marvelous document that has not slept since 1789, when the state of New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it. We will learn that disagreement is a design feature (not a bug) of the document. We will also learn how the Supreme Court manages this document, not based on the politics of the day, but on principles of republicanism, principles that both Democrats and Republicans use.

“False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers” Session Description

Since Head Start began in the 1960s, policy makers and academics have celebrated preschool as an anti-poverty policy. Drawing on two years of observations that centered children’s experiences in two different preschools, I show how preschools entrench rather than disrupt inequality in False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers. In no small part this happens because preschools across the nation are more segregated than elementary, middle, or high schools. I explain such segregation played out in the lives of children of color in one preschool and white, affluent, children in another. Racism and the harshness of US poverty had troubling implications for children’s time use, peer interaction, access to objects, and sense of closeness with teachers.