by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 10, 2016 | news, race, social justice
NPR’s All Things Considered had a week of segregated-schools talk… All of this is worth a listen… Looking Back On 50 Years Of Busing In Boston Listen· 11:17 This piece follows a Black family whose children attend wealthy, suburban white schools...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 28, 2016 | news, race
If we need another reason to send our kids to school with folks who aren’t just like them, here it is! “This result is consistent with previous research on empathy, Gilliam says. “When people feel some kind of shared connection to folks, when they...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 26, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race, social justice
https://medium.com/@teachingartist/segregation-now-segregation-forever-71f4e0a38ee6#.bbx2diy9x very moving writing by @teachingartist (A poem with footnotes, or a template for a letter, or a script for an ill-advised conversation with someone I love, dearly.)...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 13, 2016 | news, race
In Pursuit of Integration: U.S. Education Secretary John King is calling for programs that largely leave it up to parents to desegregate schools. Will that suffice? so so SO much to say re: this article. Firstly, it treats integration primarily as a race issue and...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 13, 2016 | news, race
yep. Say it. Say Race. Say it Say it SAY IT!!!!!!!! And stay tuned… The You-Don’t-Deserve-A-Cookie post is coming. Nikole Hannah-Johes bashes Philly Schools Reporting “A Philadelphia Inquirer story about a young family sending their kids to...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 12, 2016 | news, race
This is long and beautifully written and totally worth the time… This: “in the early 1980s, the political winds were changing. Ronald Reagan had been elected president, and one of his first education policy initiatives was to commission a report on K-12...
