by Peter Piazza | Feb 5, 2018 | news
Cross-posted from the School Desegregation Notebook There wasn’t an easy way to group all the stories in this roundup, so I have them in three mostly separate categories: white families and school integration, teacher and curriculum diversity, and well, Iowa. As...
by Peter Piazza | Jan 30, 2018 | news
Cross-posted from the School Desegregation Notebook. New to the SD notebook in 2018, I am planning to do research roundups every month or so. This is the first one of 2018, and it includes two reports that take very different ways of looking at the relationship...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 30, 2018 | news, our stories
Thanks to everyone who came to our Book Club discussions with Dr. Noliwe Rooks yesterday and Sunday. The conversations were provocative and it was inspiring to connect with parents from Seattle to Philly, Houston to Madison. And a million thanks to Dr. Rooks who...
by Integrated Schools | Jan 15, 2018 | news
This week Alvin Chang at Vox published a fascinating infographic article on school segregation and how school districts could mitigate segregation by fiddling with attendance zones. The fun (but no, not really fun at all…) interactive piece invites you to look...
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...
