From an article today in the Atlantic, former Obama Sec’y of Education, John B. King Jr. called the decision to cut the integration-promoting Opening Doors grant program “a ‘heartbreaking signal’ … Students of color represent more than 50...
So excited to be reading this book for our upcoming Book Club! It’s not too late to join in (register at IntegratedSchools.org) If you’d like to participate in the Book Club conversation but also like to cheat (or can’t/don’t want to buy the...
I don’t even want to excise quotes from this… just listen. 45 minutes well spent. definitely using this for Book Club soon. (Tim Wise delivers the keynote address at the 74th annual California Federation of Teachers 2016. In the speech, he examines the...
This Baltimore Sun series on school integration is solid – heartbreaking and well worth a read. The first article, Bridging the Divide, reports on the process of redrawing school boundaries and (spoiler alert!) another win for segregation under the guise of...
This we know, but let’s say it again: “Research shows that middle-class students tend to do as well academically in economically mixed schools. But more than that, there’s emerging research to suggest that, indeed, middle-class students benefit from...
David Berliner, former dean of the school of education at Arizona State University and a past president of the American Educational Research Association writes here about a topic that plagues integration efforts: the FAILING SCHOOLS Narrative. ...
