by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 26, 2016 | our stories, race
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.
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 28, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race
(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...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 21, 2016 | our stories, race
My youngest just graduated from elementary school. She went to a Title 1 (almost 95% Free/Reduced Lunch) school. And she is, like I was, a middle class white girl. Her school had a handful of us white/middle-class-hummus-to-the-potluck families at the school...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 17, 2016 | gentrification, news, our stories, race
Yeah… A lot to say on this one… first this: “By 1988… school integration in the United States had reached its peak and the achievement gap between black and white students was at its lowest point since the government began collecting data. The...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Jun 4, 2016 | news, our stories, race
“I grew up in a two-parent, white, middle class household. I’m a third generation college graduate. My parents are educated professionals and they were able to involve themselves in my education. They entered my name into the magnet school lottery more than...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 8, 2016 | news, our stories, race
I just watched this moving TEDx talk by Stanford Sociologist Prudence Carter. She distinguishes between diversity (a picture of demographics) and integration (where everyone feels that they truly belong). I found this useful in part because it helps tease out...
