by Courtney Mykytyn | Nov 27, 2019 | news
Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University: Ted Talk) found that ensuring political change takes only about 3.5% of the population to be actively engaged. She argues that the “visibility of civil resistance actions attracts more active and diverse participation from the...
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...
