It was about this time last year that I rediscovered Nikole Hannah-Jones. I was familiar with her articles, but this time was different. In November 2017, segregation simmered in the forefront of my mind because for two years my family and I had lived in a very...
From Charlottesville, Virginia to Vista, California, glad to see that school segregation is getting media attention. And though the details might be different, the stories are familiar: attendance battle zones, magnet/gifted programs and classroom-level...
Today marks the 64th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling stating that separate schools are not equal schools. It is not a time for celebration. Despite six decades of desegregation policy (and six decades of resistance to it), our public schools are...
“I don’t want my baby to be the only white kid.” We hear this a lot. Somehow we don’t hear the inverse question being asked of parents of color whose children attend majority-white schools. And somehow we think of this as a problem rather...
Dual Language programs are fantastic for a host of reasons… and they can be damn impressive mechanisms for school integration. But when we hide integration behind the coolio-program-that-gives-my-kid-another-advantage, we are undermining its greatest promise....
Another good discussion w/ Nikole Hannah-Jones who was just named one of the 2017 MacArthur Fellows. If you haven’t read/heard everything she’s said, please do! But you can start with this Adam Ruins Everything podcast interview. A worthwhile way to spend...
