by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …
by Bianca Licata Second in a Five-Part Series. In Part One of this series, we read about a white woman who did not allow her child the help he needed for his disability because it would stop him from attending a charter school. This child was two grade levels behind …
by Bianca Licata Fourth in a Five-Part Series. Part One of this series “A Mother’s ‘Dilemma’ and School Segregation,” which looks at segregation between Hispanic and white students in Sonoma county, illustrated how current attitudes and policies affect white parents, leading them to make choices that increase segregation in the …