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02/05/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Remembering Howard Zinn"
When Howard Zinn passed away on January 27 at age 87, the nation mourned the loss of a pioneering historian and social activist who revolutionized the way millions of Americans, especially young Americans, understand our shared history. His writings and work inspired millions of readers, but I was among the generations of students privileged to know him as a beloved teacher, mentor, and friend. His first academic job after graduate study at Columbia University was at the historically Black, all-women Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, my alma mater. -
01/29/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "SNCC, Fifty Years Later"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday every January becomes an occasion for looking back at the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. As the celebration of the King Holiday leads into February and Black History Month, it’s a time to consider not only how far we’ve come but how far we still have to go, and to reflect on some of the milestones in movement history. This year, one of those national and personal milestones is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). -
01/27/10
Tapping Title I: What Every School Administrator Should Know About Title I, Pre-K and School Reform
Pew Center on the States report on Title I, Pre-K and School Reform. -
01/26/10
Sample State Legislation for Implementing the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Option
This is a sample of state legislation that can be used for implementing the Kinship Guardianship Assistance option of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act. The federal Kinship Guardianship Assistance option is under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. -
01/22/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Children Drop Out and Into Lives of Poverty and Imprisonment"
A homeless man talking about how he ended up on the streets said he had wanted to get in with the “cool” crowd in 8th or 9th grade—a crowd that smoked marijuana, got into fights, and skipped school. No adult reached out to help him turn his life around so he continued his decline into a life of chronic joblessness and poverty, and long stretches of incarceration after he dropped out of school. -
01/19/10
Child Welfare Financing State Factsheets 2010
2010 state fact sheets on child welfare and financing statistics for each state. Provides information on child abuse and neglect, foster care and sources of child welfare spending. -
01/15/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Jasmine Lynn: No Hiding Place From Gun Violence"
Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Lynn arrived at Atlanta's Spelman College, my alma mater, as a smart, dedicated student full of promise. She was a psychology major with a 3.8 grade point average who wanted to be a lawyer. Her friends knew her as "a beautiful, free spirited ball of energy [who] always had a smile on her face." -
01/11/10
Arithmetic for Advocacy - Calculate a Percentage, Change, and More - Children's Defense Fund
A Brief Guide to Arithmetic for Advocacy from the Children's Defense Fund. Learn how to calculate a percentage, a rate, a ratio, change over time, and more to give meaning to your child advocacy data. -
01/08/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Six Reasons We Must Keep CHIP in Final National Health Reform Legislation"
Most Americans do not know that the politically popular and successful Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), signed by President Obama with much fanfare on February 4, 2009, will be repealed in the House bill in 2013. The Children’s Defense Fund strongly supports the Senate bill’s CHIP provisions. -
01/01/10
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Urban Food Deserts Threaten Children's Health"
If any of us were forced to live in a desert we'd probably find trying to survive in a barren, desolate wasteland difficult. But through a series of public policies and private sector decisions, millions of mostly low-income and minority families in America have been condemned to subsist in vast urban "food deserts" that pose serious health threats to their children.
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