The Crucial Need to Expand the Non-white Teacher Pipeline
"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 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 More“So Dad has joined the other [ancestors] up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me [...]
Read MorePresident Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima this week offers an opportunity to take a clear-eyed look back to the first and only time nuclear weapons [...]
Read More“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” --Frederick Douglass Pediatricians aren’t usually day-to-day policy makers but policy decisions affect the [...]
Read More“I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way [...]
Read MoreCo-author, Jackie Bezos As mothers and grandmothers who have dedicated our lives to serving children, our own and others, we know firsthand how important a [...]
Read More“They didn’t want me to have Walter because of my age. But I finally convinced them that age has nothing to do with love…What I [...]
Read More“Baldo came to the United States from Michoacán, Mexico, in 1988, when he was 17 years old. He lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife [...]
Read MoreEvery day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role models: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. As [...]
Read MoreSpring is almost in full swing and summer is just around the corner. Millions of children in America can’t wait for summer vacation, but for [...]
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