by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 8, 2016 | news
Glad that we are really talking about this… “Duncan [admits] that he couldn’t do enough to desegregate the country’s schools. In some regions, America’s schools are now more segregated than they were in the late 1960s. “I would give myself a pretty low...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 5, 2016 | news
thanks to amy for sharing this. well written. And, Nate Bowling, you’re absolutely right: “Middle class America would never allow the conditions that have become normalized in poor and brown America to stand for their kids.”...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 5, 2016 | benefits of integration, news, parenting, race
Sean Riley says it beautifully. “Right now we have winner schools and we have loser schools…It’s a race, class and privilege issue… Without [all] students interacting, there is no constructive tension. Those who come from privilege have no...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 21, 2016 | news, race
This is happening across the country. Though our schools are more socioeconomically segregated than ever before (!!!!!), there are many of us out here who believe in integrated/ing schools. But it is an uphill battle. Thanks for this article, Aaron Traister. Though...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 7, 2016 | news, our stories, race, social justice
This is an older post, but one worth revisiting. From Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the reporters in the This American Life 2-part series on segregated schools (definitely DEFINITELY worth listening to if you haven’t already. pretty gut wrenching...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 7, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race
Interesting question posed to the Ethicist of NYtimes. While some of the comments definitively advised the couple to take care of their own child and send him to the best school possible, I was heartened to see a good number of responses in support of Integrated/ing...
