by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 21, 2016 | news, race
What if we grew the next generation of teachers (or politicians, policymakers, lawyers, doctors, colonels, business-owners, for that matter) in diverse schools? Wanting to “do good” is laudable and indeed our country was built on it… but when ones...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 8, 2016 | news, race
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/on-mothering-white-sons-to-know-blacklivesmatter_us_577e85bce4b03288ddc57d79 Beautifully written article… These shootings, these tragedies, this… “White supremacy is not just robes and hoods, not just segregated lunch...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 8, 2016 | news, race
http://www.laweekly.com/news/brace-yourself-heres-how-much-it-costs-to-live-near-top-public-schools-7103908 According to a report from RentCafed, to live near top-performing elementary schools in L.A. you will be throwing down an average monthly mortgage...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 6, 2016 | news, race
I’ve been out of town (celebrating 20 years of marriage to a damn great man!) and wanted to catch up on school integration news… National Politics (School Integration getting more attention!) From the Atlantic: “Secretary King will call on...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 17, 2016 | gentrification, news, our stories, race
Yeah… A lot to say on this one… first this: “By 1988… school integration in the United States had reached its peak and the achievement gap between black and white students was at its lowest point since the government began collecting data. The...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 6, 2016 | news, race
https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/the-charter-school-swindle-selling-segregation-to-blacks-and-latinos/ We can blame charters and banks and realtors and policymakers and ChickenLittlers for our segregated schools (and we should!) – but we...
