by Courtney Mykytyn | Mar 8, 2017 | news, race
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. ...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 27, 2017 | news, race
For each of these see-how-it-works! stories, we get another watch-us-undermine-integration-in-the-name-of-“neighborhood-schools” stories. Hartford, Connecticut is famously becoming the model magnet-school city. The magnets do not hide the goal of...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 21, 2017 | news, race, social justice
Nikole Hannah-Jones… Perfect read for a Tuesday morning. She offers up a brief history of our notion of the “common good” of our public institutions… and how systemic racism has continued to shape which “common” the...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 9, 2017 | best practices, news, race
Gentrification and school integration… a LOT to unpack here. But this is heartbreaking: “they come in and you get treated as if you didn’t have any value before… That’s the sad reality with gentrification.” And I hear it from parents every day… the...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 8, 2017 | news, race
I’ve seen about 12 “what to do now that Devos is Ed Secy” articles since yesterdays confirmation. And NOT A ONE has suggested “enroll your kid in an integrated/ing school”. Not one. Sure, you can run for school board, make a few calls,...
by Courtney Mykytyn | Feb 3, 2017 | news, parenting, race, social justice
I’ve had so many people telling me that pushing for school integration through parents is a losing battle — racism/classism notwithstanding, the segregation of our neighborhoods is always cited. Of course housing (and redlining etc) affects school...
