by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 29, 2016 | news, parenting, race
“To be clear, there’s evidence that socially as well as racially integrated schools benefit all students. When a school reaches a stable level of about 30 percent middle-class students, the lower-income students achieve at higher levels and the privileged...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 24, 2016 | gentrification, news, parenting, race
Ummm… So… … Thoughts? I’m kind of at a loss on this one. Wow… “While students who apply to Satellite West now are randomly selected, Dock Street will likely pick its students based on several criteria, including test scores, grades,...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 16, 2016 | news, parenting, race
This speaks primarily about race and most specifically about black/white school segregation… But wondering what you all think of this “white people tend to perceive an inverse relationship between the quality of a school and the number of black students...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 12, 2016 | news, race
For your next hour or so of free time, watch this on school integration, 50 years later: So much in this documentary this is painful and troubling – then AND now. So much speaks to people who truly care about equality in education. So much is about a work in progress...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 10, 2016 | benefits of integration, news, parenting, race
We know this already… but here it is again: 1. White students’ test scores don’t drop when they go to schools with large numbers of black and Latino students. 2. Diverse classrooms teach some of the most important 21st-century skills, which matter...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 10, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Hip hip hooray!!!! AND! It seems that Obama is paying attention to SOCIOECONOMIC diversity, too… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/obama-education-budget_us_5… And here is another article on this from The Atlantic:...
