“IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE”
“In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an epidemic of deaths on the [...]
Read More“GETTING IT RIGHT, RIGHT FROM THE START”
“[We found that] if we created the right wraparound programs, the right preschool programs that were strong enough and rigorous enough, that fed into a [...]
Read More“STOP THE SHUTDOWN, PREVENT ECONOMIC MELTDOWN”
Since the government was forced to shut down on October 1st one of the most common refrains has been that some members of Congress are acting [...]
Read More“THE CLOSEST THING WE HAVE TO A PANACEA”
“In 2009, the city adopted universal pre-kindergarten . . . and frankly, it is some of the best money that we could ever spend. Those [...]
Read More“I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE”
Doctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he probably wouldn’t live to age one. When he did, doctors told them [...]
Read More“GUNSHOTS”
“There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate…I would like you to put my trauma center [...]
Read More“CELEBRATING FORTY YEARS FOR CHILDREN”
On September 30th friends and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) will gather at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to celebrate CDF’s 40th [...]
Read More“MENTORS MATTER”
These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the nation’s capital: “Where I live, which [...]
Read More“ALL CHILDREN DESERVE TEACHERS WHO CARE ABOUT THEM”
“You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of my teachers thought that since [...]
Read More“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?”
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]
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