by Courtney Mykytyn | Aug 30, 2016 | news
A new poll out by PDK (an ed org that has been conducting these polls x48 years) shows some very interesting things about what Americans think the main purpose of public education should be… 45% of respondents believe that the goal of school should be to prepare...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 28, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race
(I was interviewed about the presentation I gave last weekend… please please don’t laugh at that picture; was the only photo that didn’t have kids/dogs/grilled cheese sandwiches in it… ) Parent and anthropologist Courtney Everts Mykytyn...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 27, 2016 | news, race
Tim Kaine’s wife went to integrated schools in Virginia. And that fact was important enough to make it into his accepting-the-VP nomination speech tonight! Kaine says: “We’ve got to advance opportunity for everyone. No matter where they come from,...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 27, 2016 | news, race
The Strange Fruit of the Equity and Empathy Gap THIS: “Now, however, the United States has a far deeper problem. We have a profoundly endogenous equity and empathy gap. What the too frequent impunity of police in disproportionate killing of Black men and the market...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 25, 2016 | news, race
http://50can.org/what-we-do/blog/how-another-police-shooting-reveals-public-education’s-problems-race From Mr. Alleyne (but click on the link! worth a full read!) “There are clear policy solutions to issues of police violence. But the education system...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 21, 2016 | news, parenting, race
sigh… choice = segregation… and this (which you’ve read before) from Nikole Hannah-Jones “The sense of helplessness in the face of such entrenched segregation is what makes so alluring the notion, embraced by liberals and conservatives, that we...
