So much to cover! Things have been excitingly busy which means, in effect, doing the real work of keeping on top of things slides to the side a bit… (“What do you want for Mother’s Day, Mom?” kid asks. I reply “Time, child. Just a mere 5 extra hours in the day would...
The Privilege of School Choice: When given the chance, will wealthy parents ever choose to desegregate schools? Worth the read here from Patrick Wall! Article about rezoning in NYC and the deep, deep, deep ‘good/bad’ school stories… Here’s a nice chunk on...
Holme’s Buying Homes, Buying Schools is an older article (2002) about parents choosing to leave Los Angeles Unified School District and buy a home in adjacent suburbs “for,” yes, “the schools”. But just try and say that this 15 year old...
From an article today in the Atlantic, former Obama Sec’y of Education, John B. King Jr. called the decision to cut the integration-promoting Opening Doors grant program “a ‘heartbreaking signal’ … Students of color represent more than 50...
I don’t even want to excise quotes from this… just listen. 45 minutes well spent. definitely using this for Book Club soon. (Tim Wise delivers the keynote address at the 74th annual California Federation of Teachers 2016. In the speech, he examines the...