Received this from an IntSchls mama and wanted to share… Thinking about how we conceptualize ‘childhood’ and our role as ‘Good Parents’ is definitely part of this work of integration. Her comments made me think of a book I read many...
Two in-depth articles came out on Wednesday (9/6/17) covering the story of Gardendale, which we’ve been reading about for a while now. This (overwhelmingly white) suburb of Birmingham, Alabama has been lobbying for years to secede from the Jefferson County School...
Before anything gets said about school integration, we are sending all the love and support to Texas right now, and especially our IntSchls parents in Houston… Sometimes listening Nikole Hannah-Jones is kind of like going to church for me. Sometimes I need to hear...
In an Atlantic article yesterday, “The Urban-School Stigma,” education prof Jack Schneider (who has also written “America’s Not-So-Broken Education System”) lays out an argument for rethinking our beliefs about urban schools – in particular, he writes about the...
You already know the June scene: balloons and flowers, misty-eyed parents holding up cell-phone cameras, kids crossing a stage to receive graduation certificates, applause. I walked in to the auditorium feeling a sense of astonishment that we had actually made...
