Learning in Public

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For parents in many parts of the country, few parenting decisions are as fraught or personal as where to send their child to school. But what Courtney E. Martin realized as her eldest daughter prepared to enroll in kindergarten was that their family's educational choice had repercussions not just for themselves, but for their community. Courtney saw her peers, white urban women who touted "Resistance" bumper stickers and cared deeply about the state of America's criminal justice system, shudder at the thought of sending their own children to the local "failing" public schools. Determined to make different choices, Courtney enrolled the eldest of her two daughters at a school not far from their Oakland, California home.Based on extensive research as well as her own experience as a parent, Learning in Public is the story of Courtney and her daughter Maya's first year at their local school. Told with the kind of warm and engaging storytelling that has made Courtney a sought-after contributor to both the New York Times and NPR's On Being, Learning in Public takes the national conversation about race and locates it where many children and parents first intimately encounter it: school.From raffle ticket fundraisers to the unavoidable cultural differences in the drop off line, Courtney examines the cultural baggage that white parents bring to communities in which they and their children are minorities and models a more open, honest and fair way of engaging in the work of raising children in the 21st century.A rousing call for activism and reflection, Learning in Public is a vital contribution to understanding the place that anti-racist education has in the lives of parents and children.