“THE STATE OF AMERICA’S CHILDREN”
The Children's Defense Fund has just released a new report, The State of America's Children® 2011, which paints a disturbing portrait of child needs across [...]
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“THE PROMISE OF FREEDOM SCHOOLS”
In many school districts across the country summer vacation is getting into full swing. But for a lucky group of nearly 10,000 children in 87 [...]
Read More“THE PLEDGE”
Over this long holiday weekend, children will be gathering in towns and cities around the country ooh-ing and aah-ing over fireworks, marching in parades, proud [...]
Read More“GIVING BLACK BOYS A STRONG START”
When Shawn Dove was in sixth grade, the students at his New York City school were asked to decide which academic track they wanted to [...]
Read More“MATERNAL DEPRESSION: HELPING MOTHERS, HELPING CHILDREN”
Ellie Zuehlke and her husband had expected the birth of their long-awaited first child to be one of the happiest moments of their lives—until, somehow, [...]
Read More“ONE WOMAN’S FREEDOM MOVEMENT”
"Seeing the relationship between my personal cause and the universal cause of freedom released me from a sense of isolation, helped me to rid myself [...]
Read More“REMEMBERING DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS’S LEGACY”
"It started here in a log cabin and a cotton patch. If it hadn't been for Benjamin Mays, there probably wouldn't have been a Martin [...]
Read More“RACE TO THE TOP-EARLY LEARNING CHALLENGE”
On May 25th, the Obama Administration announced a new Race to the Top challenge fund to identify and reward best practices in education—$500 million of [...]
Read More“FIGHTING CUTS TO CHILD CARE”
New York City parent Yvonne works as a home care attendant to help support her three-year-old son Darnell. While Yvonne is working, Darnell is enrolled [...]
Read More“VOTING RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK”
At the signing of the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 striking down the discriminatory practices many states had put in place to [...]
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