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A Year in Two Different Worlds: Why Integrated Schools are Essential
(a few months old... but I just saw it, so...) From a teacher's POV... And Katherine Meeks marks the difference...
Chicago update…
More meetings ahead for our Chicago Ogden-Jenner parents...Looking at another year and a half before the merger could...
That Day my Son Felt Too White for his School: When “Belonging” and School Integration is Just Really Hard…..
Lest anyone imagine that our school integration story has been smooth, that my offspring are always on board and willing, that all this talk about awareness and multi-racial/classial friendships has been easy, today my son came home and told that he doesn’t want to go to school there anymore.
Take the TWO TOUR Pledge!
Thanks for posting this on CloakingInequity, Dr. Heilig!
12/5/16…updates and thoughts and new commitments
I've been posting a hell of a lot of news and other people's work. This is good, it's important stuff. But, honestly,...
I was the smart black girl schooled in a white world, but zip code shouldn’t be our education destiny anymore
This is a beautiful essay. This part especially got me: “When we start comparing predominantly white communities to...
Read Dirk Tillotson!
From his blog GreatSchoolVoices.org based out of Oakland, CA... "The basics of desegregation are simple. It just...
A Divided America Gave Us the Problem of a Donald Trump Presidency. Integration is the Solution.
by Kelly Bare Many of us are still in shock: How could so many Americans know the hurtful, unacceptable things Donald...
Take the TWO TOUR Pledge!
As a Parent-with-Choice in support of the fundamental premise that all children have the right to a quality education, and with the belief that in choosing a school for my child I am also building the world they will live in as an adult, I pledge…
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