“SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION REFORM”
As America's children headed back to school in September, President Obama delivered a televised back-to-school address to the nation's students from the Julia R. Masterman [...]
Read MoreAs America's children headed back to school in September, President Obama delivered a televised back-to-school address to the nation's students from the Julia R. Masterman [...]
Read MoreArtist Varnette Honeywood had a clear vision of how she perceived Black people and families and a gift for sharing her joyful, colorful perspective with [...]
Read MoreRecently released U.S. Census Bureau data confirmed our worst fears about the impact of this deep recession. Nearly four million more Americans fell into poverty [...]
Read MoreAs a new academic year starts, children around the country are going back to school and settling into new classes. Meanwhile, parents, educators, policy experts, [...]
Read More"[Jefferson] Thomas was just a teenager when he became one of the first African-American students to enroll in Little Rock Central High School. Yet even [...]
Read MoreRecently, the United Nations expressed new concern about a crisis many Americans know little about: the use of child soldiers in global conflicts, especially in [...]
Read MoreI have a dream that I can go back to my home, that I can go back to New Orleans. I have a dream, [...]
Read MoreChildren have only one childhood and it is right now. Millions of children in our nation require emergency attention in our recession ravaged economy as [...]
Read MoreIn late July, both President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke to the National Urban League's Centennial Conference about what the President called [...]
Read MoreAfrican Americans have always seen education as a key to life and freedom. In his autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American [...]
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