Why Some Kids Are Put In Special Education And Others In Gifted Programs: Racial stereotyping can affect kids at every stage of life We’ve seen this before… I can’t help but guess that this would be a different story if our teachers had been...
Heartbreaking. Teacher Kandice Sumner’s entire talk is moving and well worth a watch. But this — this killed me: “knowing that strangers will take care of you is a privilege my kids aren’t afforded.” And so it goes, on and on… But...
A great way to start the week with John Oliver — though I do wish he had included socioeconomic segregation issues as well… Thanks to the many of you who forwarded this to us! My favorite excerpts: “You don’t have to be intentionally racist to do...
Check out this 14 minute interview with the author of the book We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Not specifically about school segregation but certainly relevant. “Diversity is a difficult word now… We’ve become content with the picture of...
Read this. Think a school is “good” because of it’s high test scores? Read this. Think you have to send your kid to this “good school” for her to get a good education? Read this. Excerpt: “Assessments are graded on a...
Segregation at an Early Age Published by the Center for Education and Civil Rights and the National Coalition for School Diversity (a coalition that IntegratedSchools.org is proud to be a member of!). From one of my favorite people and writers, Andrew...
