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...
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.)...
Though author/teacher James Ford is talking about Charlotte-Mecklenburg in particular, these are questions we all face… “Are we a community that responds to the needs of every student and values the benefits of integrated schools? Or are we a community...
This is an older post, but one worth revisiting. From Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the reporters in the This American Life 2-part series on segregated schools (definitely DEFINITELY worth listening to if you haven’t already. pretty gut wrenching...
Right now in America (the land of opportunity and democracy), our public schools (funded by taxpayers and imparted with the job of teaching all children) are more segregated now than ever before. We are more segregated than before Mendez v. Westminster...
