“THANK GOD FOR PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY—PB AND J—DAY”
Kaylyn Sigman is a high school senior with big plans. A star soccer player from a poor rural Appalachian Ohio community who loves calculus and [...]
Read More“BIG WINNERS AND BIG LOSERS IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE REPUBLICAN BUDGETS”
A budget is a moral document; it talks about where your values are. – Representative Rob Woodall (R-GA) discussing the House Budget Committee’s FY2016 Proposal There [...]
Read More“LET’S GIVE CHILD HUNGER A SUMMER VACATION”
Many children and families eagerly look forward to the end of the school year and the carefree days of summer, playing outside in the warm [...]
Read More“TIME FOR JUSTICE FOR CHILDREN IN NEW YORK” BY MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN AND MELANIE HARTZOG
Under New York’s juvenile justice system a child as young as seven can be arrested for a crime, and a 16-year-old is automatically charged as [...]
Read More“STAYING ON THE MARCH—RIGHT NOW”
Fifty years ago I traveled from Mississippi to Selma, Alabama on March 21st, 1965 to join Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and thousands of fellow [...]
Read More“WHO ARE WE? WHAT DO WE AMERICANS TRULY VALUE?”
Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National [...]
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“MAKE ME A WOMAN”
One of my sheroes is Sojourner Truth. A brilliant but illiterate woman, she was a great orator and powerful presence who possessed great courage and [...]
Read More“NO ESEA BILL IS BETTER THAN ONE THAT FAILS TO PROTECT THE POOREST CHILDREN”
For fifty years Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) has been the primary source of federal funding targeted to [...]
Read More“GIRLS IN JUSTICE”
I’m grateful for a powerful new book, Girls In Justice by artist Richard Ross, a follow up to his moving earlier Juvenile In Justice, which [...]
Read More“PUSH FOR PROGRESS: CHILDREN CANNOT WAIT”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the [...]
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