Take the TWO TOUR Pledge!
As a Parent-with-Choice in support of the fundamental premise that all children have the right to a quality education, and with the belief that in choosing a school for my child I am also building the world they will live in as an adult, I pledge…
Segregation Now. Segregation Forever?
https://medium.com/@teachingartist/segregation-now-segregation-forever-71f4e0a38ee6#.bbx2diy9x very moving writing by @teachingartist (A poem with footnotes, or a template for a letter, or a script for an ill-advised conversation with someone I love, dearly.)...Racism, Policing and Schools are NOT Separate Conversations
Our schools are more segregated than ever before (yes, more than before the Civil Rights Movement and Brown v. Board of Education) and we wonder why we can’t get anywhere with race and class relations in the US… We don’t even know each other.
Until we invest our most precious, until we entrust our most beloved, until we put our literal skin in the game, all of our social justice, anti-racism resolutions will not be enough.
Forum panel discusses how segregation in LA Unified schools is worse than ever…
(I was interviewed about the presentation I gave last weekend… please please don’t laugh at that picture; was the only photo that didn’t have kids/dogs/grilled cheese sandwiches in it… ) Parent and anthropologist Courtney Everts Mykytyn...