In meeting after meeting with a wide range of community residents and leaders, Great Schools for All proponents hear variations on these same legitimate questions: • Will anyone be interested in interdistrict socioeconomically-mixed magnet schools? • Would any students want to attend? • Would any parents send their kids outside their home districts to attend …
Is There a Market for Interdistrict Magnet Schools? Read More »
Who are we? Better yet, who do we want to be as a community? Seriously, are we ready and willing to take the steps needed to solve the problems of poverty and decline that have beset us now for more than a generation? Or, will we once again, take comfort in stereotypes and settle for …
I recently read two articles that gave me pause. The first, “How Woodrow Wilson Shut the Door on K-12 Education for African Americans,” discussed the significance of recent protests at Princeton University by students who have urged the trustees to change the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Wilson supported the …
The race factor in the challenge of socioeconomic integration Read More »
