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...
Category : Racial Isolation and Integration
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....
UCLA Civil Rights Project: The Broken Promise of Brown
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The publication of this report marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case declaring racial...
Stephen Suitts: The Racist History of “School Choice”
Stephen Suitts is an adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts. He is the author of Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots...