3 Ways White Kids Benefit Most From Racially Diverse Schools

by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 10, 2016 | benefits of integration, news, parenting, race

We know this already… but here it is again: 1. White students’ test scores don’t drop when they go to schools with large numbers of black and Latino students. 2. Diverse classrooms teach some of the most important 21st-century skills, which matter...

Obama Wants To Get Rich And Poor Kids In The Same Classroom

by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 10, 2016 | news, parenting, race

Hip hip hooray!!!! AND! It seems that Obama is paying attention to SOCIOECONOMIC diversity, too… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obama-education-budget_us_5… And here is another article on this from The Atlantic:...

Our next Ed Secretary might do more for school integration?!

by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 8, 2016 | news

Glad that we are really talking about this… “Duncan [admits] that he couldn’t do enough to desegregate the country’s schools. In some regions, America’s schools are now more segregated than they were in the late 1960s. “I would give myself a pretty low...

The conversation I’m tired of not having…

by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 5, 2016 | news

thanks to amy for sharing this. well written. And, Nate Bowling, you’re absolutely right: “Middle class America would never allow the conditions that have become normalized in poor and brown America to stand for their kids.”...

Diversity is uncomfortable… but that’s a good thing.

by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 5, 2016 | benefits of integration, news, parenting, race

Sean Riley says it beautifully. “Right now we have winner schools and we have loser schools…It’s a race, class and privilege issue… Without [all] students interacting, there is no constructive tension. Those who come from privilege have no...