by Courtney Mykytyn | Jan 1, 2017 | book club, our stories, parenting, race, social justice
Been spending a good amount of time this holiday break hanging with the family and crocheting pillows to replace the ones that my stupid best friend’s stupid dog ate while I was so generously dogsitting. But also, have been doing a lot of reading. The brokenhearted...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Dec 1, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race, social justice
This is a beautiful essay. This part especially got me: “When we start comparing predominantly white communities to communities of color, I want to help people start to change the narrative from “better”… to different.” She’s right. The way we talk about schools...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Oct 27, 2016 | news, parenting, race, social justice
Read this. Think a school is “good” because of it’s high test scores? Read this. Think you have to send your kid to this “good school” for her to get a good education? Read this. Excerpt: “Assessments are graded on a...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 26, 2016 | news, our stories, parenting, race, social justice
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.)...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Sep 1, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Here is another story of Oakland public schools… This article tells a short story of two families in Oakland: one, a white family who tries to go to a predominantly poor, mostly African-American school and leaves after two years, and the other, an...
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...
