by Peter Piazza | Oct 17, 2017 | news
Originally posted 10/12 at the School Desegregation Notebook I took some time off of the roundup posts, and tons of stuff happened: it was the 60th anniversary of the Little Rock Nine, there was a new documentary, new podcasts and books, lots of great “misc” articles...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 12, 2017 | news, parenting, race, social justice
Another good discussion w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones who was just named one of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows. If you haven’t read/heard everything she’s said, please do! But you can start with this Adam Ruins Everything podcast interview. A worthwhile way to spend...
by Integrated Schools | Sep 24, 2017 | news, our stories
We’ve been pretty excited about our first two Happy Hours — so exciting to talk with parents who care about this issue across the country! This week, we’ll be changing it up a bit and joining in the EmbraceRace/IntegrateNYC webchat. We LOVE the work...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 8, 2017 | news
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...
by Integrated Schools | Sep 5, 2017 | news, our stories
*****Call to Action!***** If you have 5 minutes today, please join us in an email & twitter campaign to urge Houston Schools to leverage the horrors of Hurricane Harvey into a space to build equity and meaningful integration. Below you’ll find a letter and...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Aug 26, 2017 | news, our stories
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...
