by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 13, 2016 | news, race
In Pursuit of Integration: U.S. Education Secretary John King is calling for programs that largely leave it up to parents to desegregate schools. Will that suffice? so so SO much to say re: this article. Firstly, it treats integration primarily as a race issue and...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 13, 2016 | news, race
yep. Say it. Say Race. Say it Say it SAY IT!!!!!!!! And stay tuned… The You-Don’t-Deserve-A-Cookie post is coming. Nikole Hannah-Johes bashes Philly Schools Reporting “A Philadelphia Inquirer story about a young family sending their kids to...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 12, 2016 | news, race
This is long and beautifully written and totally worth the time… This: “in the early 1980s, the political winds were changing. Ronald Reagan had been elected president, and one of his first education policy initiatives was to commission a report on K-12...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 12, 2016 | news, race
Most of you already know much of this… but it’s a nice redux (an yet another call to please, for the sake of all that is good, can we please stop with the “colorblindness” idea?). And this (yep — here’s the tie back to integrated...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 7, 2016 | news, race
Two articles hit my inbox over the past few days that show (again) that familiarity does not, in fact, breed contempt. Quite the opposite. First, this piece shows, through a longitudinal study using Census Bureau data, that white veterans are more likely to...
