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:...
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...
