“DECRIMINALIZING SCHOOL DISCIPLINE”
I believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve [...]
Read MoreI believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve [...]
Read MoreJust released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of those who are poor is [...]
Read MoreAcross 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 MoreDr. Terrell Strayhorn, a brilliant Black Ohio State University professor, recently opened the Educational Testing Service and Children’s Defense Fund co-sponsored symposium on Advancing Success [...]
Read MoreNot long ago Reverend Romal Tune was the child in “Who’s Looking for Me,” his spoken word piece shared below—the hungry boy begging strangers for [...]
Read MoreWe know the commonly repeated claim that there are more Black men in prison than in college isn’t true—but in 2011 Black men accounted for fewer than [...]
Read MoreBy Marian Wright Edelman Bishop Minerva Carcaño, the Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church, is acting with urgency. Along with more [...]
Read MoreBy Marian Wright Edelman For years the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx in New York, home to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, was the poorest [...]
Read MoreBy Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass The site in the photograph below, along a back road near Philadelphia, Mississippi, was the final stop on [...]
Read More“None of us had any real education in social change. I was a biology major and a preacher. And yet we found ourselves in positions [...]
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