Steve Hinnefeld: Racial Integration Benefits All of Us
Indiana blogger Steve Hinnefeld reviews Heather McGee’s The Sum of Us, which he highly recommends. As we saw in the Olympics, Americans are different that...
Category : Racial Isolation and Integration
Courtney Martin: Lessons in Choosing a School and the Stealth Racism of White Liberals
The writer Anand Giridharadas writes a blog called The.Ink. In a recent post, he interviewed author Courtney Martin about her decision to send her child...
Thomas Ultican: “School Choice” Was Created by White Supremacists
In this post, Thomas Ultican reviews Steve Suitts’ devastating new book about the origins of school choice. Advocates of school choice like to claim economist...
Michael Klonsky: The Return of General Tata
Do you remember General Tata? After a career in the military, retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata entered the Broad Academy in 2009, launching a new...
Nancy Bailey Reimagines Schools of the Future
Nancy Bailey here presents a vision of schools that create a new realty and build a better society. Public schools can bring us together. When...
Garrison Keillor: Today is the Birthday of Malcolm X
Garrison Keillor writes today about the life and achievements of Malcolm X. Today is his birthday. Just a small apercu: on February 21, 1965, I...
Los Angeles: Tragic Death of Integration Advocate
Courtney Everts Mykytyn was a force of nature in Los Angeles, where she led the fight for racially integrated schools. She founded an organization called...
John Thompson: Why School Integration Matters
John Thompson, historian and retired teacher in Oklahoma, reviews an important recent book. It is ironic that the evidence for the value of integration...
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Busing Did Not Fail, We Did
“Court-ordered desegregation worked. But white racism made it hard to accept.” When Senator Kamala Harris confronted former Vice President Joe Biden at the second Democratic...
David Safier: Charter Schools and Enrollment Decline In Tucson
Tucson Unified School District has been losing students steadily since 2000. Lots of students. At its turn-of-the-millenium high point, the district had 62,500 students....