Why the debate about “patriotic education” is also a debate about multiracial democracy, diversity, and integration

This post, which is intended to be the first installment in an eventual series, provides basic background on the Department of Education’s recently-proposed priority on patriotic education and highlights its relevance to school diversity (and diversity issues more broadly). It provides a high-level overview of public statements and comment letters issued in response by organizations…

Threats to democracy in white student segregation

I grew up in a town with a liberal reputation and an overwhelmingly white k-12 school district, where racism was an animating feature of everything from zoning laws to playground “jokes.” There are obviously many places like this, and, as you know, these places typically aren’t considered to be “segregated schools” in need of political…