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Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School
Maybe someday
45
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
78/100Critics
13/100Scholars
Author:
Courtney E. Martin
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
August 3, 2021
One motherâs story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors.
What The Reviewers Say
... a messy, complex story—which reflects the nature of the circumstances. She presents a compelling account of the benefits of diverse, integrated schools: Maya thrives academically, and her social life explodes as she makes friends across racially, culturally and ethnically diverse groups. And yet, Learning in Public is more credible because it also grapples with how the arrival of well-resourced, well-meaning White families isn’t always an inevitable, unalloyed good.
... aimed at fellow upper-middle-class white progressives eager to confront their 'white fragility'.
Martin’s musings sometimes read as self-involved, but the narrative will resonate with like-minded (particularly white) parents in similar economic situations.
... remarkably candid and perceptive.
