by Integrated Schools | Oct 8, 2019 | news
Join us for a Friday Night (10/25) panel discussion Learning Together: The Intersection of Race and Education with Genevieve Siegal-Hawley,Taikein Cooper, and Courtney Mykytyn. 630 – 8pm at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU (601 Broad Street) On...
by Peter Piazza | Jul 25, 2019 | news
–Peter Piazza (Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State) It seems like a good time to update my previous post about media coverage of the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden about school integration/“busing” at the Democratic Primary debate...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 12, 2019 | news
And… here it is! Nikole Hannah-Jones on the “busing” debate. “That we even use the word “busing” to describe what was in fact court-ordered school desegregation, and that Americans of all stripes believe that the brief period in which we...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 9, 2019 | news
This article, “Do You Support Busing?’ is Not the Best Question” gives a nice overview of why the discussion over busing can be a distraction… It is definitely worth a read. But problematically, the author writes that “Schools are...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 20, 2019 | news
Take a few minutes to appreciate this TED Talk by Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs “the first step to making change is to answer the question: Who is our neighbor? … But CHARITY IS NOT JUSTICE. Acts of empathy are not justice. Being a good neighbor is...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 14, 2019 | news
There is nothing that brings our nation together like a wee bit of comeuppance. This week even Fox News and CNN stood on the same platform of moral outrage at the college admissions scandal that the FBI cheekily dubbed ’Operation Varsity Blues.’ Fifty people have...
