by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 12, 2016 | news, race
Most of you already know much of this… but it’s a nice redux (an yet another call to please, for the sake of all that is good, can we please stop with the “colorblindness” idea?). And this (yep — here’s the tie back to integrated...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 7, 2016 | news, race
Two articles hit my inbox over the past few days that show (again) that familiarity does not, in fact, breed contempt. Quite the opposite. First, this piece shows, through a longitudinal study using Census Bureau data, that white veterans are more likely to...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 7, 2016 | news, race
From our Education Secretary: “I hope … that folks see that they have a stake in the success of other people’s children. The reality is you can’t build walls high enough to keep the fate of your kids separate from the fate of the kid down the...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 6, 2016 | news, race
no surprise: “recent reporting from U.S. News & World Report found that some rich suburban districts receive more federal aid for low-income students than smaller but far poorer districts.” http://www.theatlantic.com/…/long-term-consequence…/498599/…...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 2, 2016 | news, race
Johnson-Huston writes “These … Liberals are quick to be against school choice, while their kids go to private or well-regarded public schools. Leaving poor black children behind in underperforming schools and providing less opportunity to improve their lives is...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 1, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Here is another story of Oakland public schools… This article tells a short story of two families in Oakland: one, a white family who tries to go to a predominantly poor, mostly African-American school and leaves after two years, and the other, an...
