In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the Washington Monument, like a phoenix, our [...]
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Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility. [...]
Read MoreAs a new school year begins, parents, teachers and administrators are all thinking about how to make it the best year ever. One of the [...]
Read MoreDo your children love the books on their summer reading lists? Are your children reading about diverse cultures and books that reflect their experience or [...]
Read More"If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I [...]
Read MoreBrandon, a six-year-old in the Houston Independent School District, had two working parents until his father was laid off. Brandon lost his health insurance when [...]
Read MoreThis has been a hard year for poor children and children of color in a gridlocked and cantankerous Congress. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) [...]
Read MoreDamien Durr is a brilliant young man who grew up in Ohio in a family of teachers where education was always stressed. No one—including Damien—ever [...]
Read MoreWhen I was growing up my parents constantly tried to be and to expose us to good role models. Daddy would pile us children into [...]
Read MoreI believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve [...]
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