“THE INVISIBLE ACHIEVEMENT GAP: STUDENTS IN FOSTER CARE”
Across the country it’s back to school time. I hope it is a year full of promise and not disappointment and added stress for all [...]
Read More“FROM HARDSHIP TO HOPE”
“Foster care is not fun for anyone,” says 24-year-old law student Amy Peters, who entered Nebraska’s foster care system at age 12 and remained until [...]
Read MoreFrom Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
As a brand new law school graduate in 1963 I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s first two [...]
Read More“THE SEED EXPERIMENT”
A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment”: A child plants identical seeds in two pots. She places the first [...]
Read More“MAKING STRIDES FOR PRESCHOOL”
New York City received a lot of attention recently with a bold promise made to some of its youngest residents: Mayor Bill de Blasio ran [...]
Read More“IT JUST TAKES EVERYTHING WE’RE NOT DOING NOW”
“You don't have to be a Black male educator to teach Black students. You just have to love Black male children and believe that they [...]
Read More“THE COURAGE AND VISION OF MEDGAR EVERS”
“One hundred fifty years after the Emancipation Proclamation and 50 years after the March on Washington, we celebrate the spirit of our ancestors, which has [...]
Read More“INSPIRING LESSONS FROM RUBY BRIDGES: A TRUE AMERICAN HEROINE”
As a six-year-old first grader in New Orleans in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend an all-White elementary school in the [...]
Read More“PUSHING CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL—A NEW AMERICAN VALUE?”
In 1642 the Massachusetts General Court passed one of the very first laws about education in what would become the United States. It ruled that [...]
Read More“CUTS IN EDUCATION: A FAILING CHOICE”
Aristotle got it right when he said, "All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires [...]
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