by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 28, 2017 | news, race, social justice
This Baltimore Sun series on school integration is solid – heartbreaking and well worth a read. The first article, Bridging the Divide, reports on the process of redrawing school boundaries and (spoiler alert!) another win for segregation under the guise of...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 19, 2017 | benefits of integration, news, our stories, race
This we know, but let’s say it again: “Research shows that middle-class students tend to do as well academically in economically mixed schools. But more than that, there’s emerging research to suggest that, indeed, middle-class students benefit from...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 14, 2017 | news, our stories
Some of the objections/concerns we hear from parents about sending their babes to integrating schools goes something like this: “the world is just SO competitive. Getting in to college is SO crazy-fierce. I just can’t take the risk of not sending mine to the best...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 8, 2017 | news, race
David Berliner, former dean of the school of education at Arizona State University and a past president of the American Educational Research Association writes here about a topic that plagues integration efforts: the FAILING SCHOOLS Narrative. ...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 27, 2017 | news, race
For each of these see-how-it-works! stories, we get another watch-us-undermine-integration-in-the-name-of-“neighborhood-schools” stories. Hartford, Connecticut is famously becoming the model magnet-school city. The magnets do not hide the goal of...
