“FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN: A MISSING HALF-STEP IN OUR SCHOOLS”
In Pennsylvania, many children who had been getting excited about their first day of full-day kindergarten were disappointed when full-day kindergarten fell victim to [...]
Read More“GETTING CHILDREN READY FOR SCHOOL”
From new backpacks to sharp pencils, parents across the country are doing their best to cross the items off their children's back-to-school checklists. They want [...]
Read More“CELEBRATING THE CHILDREN’S SABBATH”
Across the country, thousands of people of faith are coming together right now to advocate for children in need through National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® [...]
Read More“SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION REFORM”
As America's children headed back to school in September, President Obama delivered a televised back-to-school address to the nation's students from the Julia R. Masterman [...]
Read More“GETTING ALL CHILDREN THE SCHOOLS THEY DESERVE”
As a new academic year starts, children around the country are going back to school and settling into new classes. Meanwhile, parents, educators, policy experts, [...]
Read More“KATRINA, FIVE YEARS LATER”
I have a dream that I can go back to my home, that I can go back to New Orleans. I have a dream, [...]
Read More“CHILDREN NEED EMERGENCY HELP IN THIS DEEP RECESSION NOW!”
Children have only one childhood and it is right now. Millions of children in our nation require emergency attention in our recession ravaged economy as [...]
Read More“CHANGING THE STATUS QUO IN OUR SCHOOLS”
In late July, both President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to the National Urban League's Centennial Conference about what the President called [...]
Read More“EDUCATION AS OPPORTUNITY”
African Americans have always seen education as a key to life and freedom. In his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American [...]
Read More“ABYSSINIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: CREATING COMMUNITY CHANGE”
In recent years, Harlem has been undergoing a dramatic transformation—one that's often been called a second Harlem Renaissance. While the first Harlem Renaissance was a [...]
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