Johnson-Huston writes “These … Liberals are quick to be against school choice, while their kids go to private or well-regarded public schools. Leaving poor black children behind in underperforming schools and providing less opportunity to improve their lives is...
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...
(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...
Tim Kaine’s wife went to integrated schools in Virginia. And that fact was important enough to make it into his accepting-the-VP nomination speech tonight! Kaine says: “We’ve got to advance opportunity for everyone. No matter where they come from,...
The Strange Fruit of the Equity and Empathy Gap THIS: “Now, however, the United States has a far deeper problem. We have a profoundly endogenous equity and empathy gap. What the too frequent impunity of police in disproportionate killing of Black men and the market...
http://50can.org/what-we-do/blog/how-another-police-shooting-reveals-public-education’s-problems-race From Mr. Alleyne (but click on the link! worth a full read!) “There are clear policy solutions to issues of police violence. But the education system...
