by Courtney Mykytyn | Jul 6, 2016 | news, race
I’ve been out of town (celebrating 20 years of marriage to a damn great man!) and wanted to catch up on school integration news… National Politics (School Integration getting more attention!) From the Atlantic: “Secretary King will call on...
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 6, 2016 | news, race
https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/the-charter-school-swindle-selling-segregation-to-blacks-and-latinos/ We can blame charters and banks and realtors and policymakers and ChickenLittlers for our segregated schools (and we should!) – but we...
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 | May 27, 2016 | news, race
Coincidentally, I had both of these white privilege articles in my inbox today. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-vs-white-privilege/484355/?utm_source=atlfb#article-comments Audacity of Nope: You Wanted People of Color Then But Don’t...
