by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 21, 2016 | news, parenting, race
sigh… choice = segregation… and this (which you’ve read before) from Nikole Hannah-Jones “The sense of helplessness in the face of such entrenched segregation is what makes so alluring the notion, embraced by liberals and conservatives, that we...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 16, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Reading Courtney Martin’s beautiful piece reflecting on her study abroad year in South Africa (The Third World is Not Your Classroom) got me thinking again about my college-age traveling. Hitchhiking through South America was, yes, different from living with a...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 9, 2016 | news, parenting, race
Two articles today talking about how middle class (mostly white) parents find their way to middle class schools. This from redqueenla talks about the segregation generated by charter schools. This, from Erika Wilson’s forthcoming article in Cornell Law Review outlines...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 29, 2016 | news, parenting, race
“To be clear, there’s evidence that socially as well as racially integrated schools benefit all students. When a school reaches a stable level of about 30 percent middle-class students, the lower-income students achieve at higher levels and the privileged...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 24, 2016 | gentrification, news, parenting, race
Ummm… So… … Thoughts? I’m kind of at a loss on this one. Wow… “While students who apply to Satellite West now are randomly selected, Dock Street will likely pick its students based on several criteria, including test scores, grades,...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 16, 2016 | news, parenting, race
This speaks primarily about race and most specifically about black/white school segregation… But wondering what you all think of this “white people tend to perceive an inverse relationship between the quality of a school and the number of black students...
