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...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 21, 2017 | news, race, social justice
Nikole Hannah-Jones… Perfect read for a Tuesday morning. She offers up a brief history of our notion of the “common good” of our public institutions… and how systemic racism has continued to shape which “common” the...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 10, 2017 | news
YES! I don’t envy the storm that these moms are going to be facing, but this is ON POINT. “As with integrating students of different races and economic backgrounds, mixing students with different academic abilities can benefit all…....
by Integrated Schools | Feb 9, 2017 | book club, events, news
The first Integrated Schools Book Club is ON and we have been overwhelmed by the response! Parents (and teachers and school board members) from across the US are joining in to this conversation. New York, Madison, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Poughkeepsie, Buffalo,...
