by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 2, 2018 | gentrification, news, race, social justice
Dual Language programs are fantastic for a host of reasons… and they can be damn impressive mechanisms for school integration. But when we hide integration behind the coolio-program-that-gives-my-kid-another-advantage, we are undermining its greatest promise....
by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 14, 2017 | news
I’m sure many of you have seen this link but we’d be remiss not to post it here as well. Professor Yankah has penned a heartbreaking article in the NYTimes and, sadly if not predictably, many of the comments miss the point altogether. Yankah writes that...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 24, 2017 | our stories
** Book Club is coming up at the end of October! Register now to discuss Beverly Daniel Tatum’s re-release of Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria! ** Having just returned from the Network for Public Education conference in Oakland and...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 12, 2017 | news, parenting, race, social justice
Another good discussion w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones who was just named one of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows. If you haven’t read/heard everything she’s said, please do! But you can start with this Adam Ruins Everything podcast interview. A worthwhile way to spend...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 27, 2017 | our stories
You’ve probably been seeing a lot about the Little Rock Nine this week as we are honoring the courage of the nine ‘integrating’ students in 1957 and use this anniversary to reflect on the past sixty years. And, no surprise to any of you, the bottom...
