*****Call to Action!***** If you have 5 minutes today, please join us in an email & twitter campaign to urge Houston Schools to leverage the horrors of Hurricane Harvey into a space to build equity and meaningful integration. Below you’ll find a letter and...
Before anything gets said about school integration, we are sending all the love and support to Texas right now, and especially our IntSchls parents in Houston… Sometimes listening Nikole Hannah-Jones is kind of like going to church for me. Sometimes I need to hear...
In an Atlantic article yesterday, “The Urban-School Stigma,” education prof Jack Schneider (who has also written “America’s Not-So-Broken Education System”) lays out an argument for rethinking our beliefs about urban schools – in particular, he writes about the...
When parents ask me where my daughter is going to kindergarten, I tell them my local, public, elementary school. Many are surprised, and follow the question up with “Oh! Is that a good school?” Sometimes, even though I don’t mean it, I say, “no.” I say that because I...
Now that we are neck-deep in the advertising-rich “Back to School” season, let’s pause a minute to think about what it is that we are going “back” to. Parents around the country are washing the summer grime off our kids and filling shiny new backpacks with pencils and...
You already know the June scene: balloons and flowers, misty-eyed parents holding up cell-phone cameras, kids crossing a stage to receive graduation certificates, applause. I walked in to the auditorium feeling a sense of astonishment that we had actually made...
