NPR on Seg… Busing, Voluntary Integration
NPR’s All Things Considered had a week of segregated-schools talk… All of this is worth a listen… Looking Back On 50 Years Of Busing In Boston Listen· 11:17 This piece follows a Black family whose children attend wealthy, suburban white schools...
Implicit Bias in Preschool (you know what is about to happen here, right?!)
If we need another reason to send our kids to school with folks who aren’t just like them, here it is! “This result is consistent with previous research on empathy, Gilliam says. “When people feel some kind of shared connection to folks, when they...
Segregation Now. Segregation Forever?
https://medium.com/@teachingartist/segregation-now-segregation-forever-71f4e0a38ee6#.bbx2diy9x very moving writing by @teachingartist (A poem with footnotes, or a template for a letter, or a script for an ill-advised conversation with someone I love, dearly.)...Racism, Policing and Schools are NOT Separate Conversations
Our schools are more segregated than ever before (yes, more than before the Civil Rights Movement and Brown v. Board of Education) and we wonder why we can’t get anywhere with race and class relations in the US… We don’t even know each other.
Until we invest our most precious, until we entrust our most beloved, until we put our literal skin in the game, all of our social justice, anti-racism resolutions will not be enough.
