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07/07/11

2010 Ohio Kids Count Report

07/01/11

Child Watch® Column: "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 of their heritage and proudly waving the American flag. Most of them still believe in the promise of America—a promise reflected in so many of the values and ideals that underlie the founding documents of our nation and the Pledge of Allegiance so many of us learned as children and repeated each morning in school.

06/27/11

Year-Round Learning: Linking School, Afterschool, and Summer Learning to Support Student Success

On June 24th, the Harvard Family Research Project released a report highlighting the benefits of 14 year-round innovative school programs that "demonstrated success in providing quality learning opportunities for youth," including CDF's Freedom Schools program. Year-round schooling for CDF Freedom Schools program helps poor children, particularly children of color close the achievement gap and stay in the cradle to college.

06/27/11

Children's Health Coverage State Fact Sheets

These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding children's health coverage in each state including data on the uninsured, those enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP, income eligibility and enrollment procedures.

06/24/11

SNAP Works for Children and America

The Supplemental Food and Nutrition Program (SNAP), formally called Food Stamps, serves children and families by providing targeted assistance to purchase food when they need help most. Since the worst recession in decades began in December 2007, millions of low and middle income parents have lost their jobs and the security of knowing their children would never go to sleep or to school hungry. While these parents work to get their family finances back on track, SNAP has served as a critical support in ensuring their children's daily nutritional needs are met.

06/24/11

Child Watch® Column: "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 follow for the next two years. He decided to choose "major gym," just like the rest of his friends. But when he brought the form home to his single mother and said "Hey, Mom—can you sign this for me?," his mother said, "No—you're not going to major in gym! There's no future in gym. You're taking science and math."

06/17/11

Child Watch® Column: "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, it wasn't. Instead, Ellie experienced severe postpartum depression that left her unable to care for their newborn son. To thousands of mothers, Ellie Zuehlke's story will sound sadly familiar.

06/14/11

Full Day Kindergarten: Why Does It Matter?

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core Standards, expecting kindergarten children to master specific skills.

06/10/11

Child Watch® Column: "One Woman's Freedom Movement"

The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray spent a lifetime challenging not only racial segregation, but systems of discrimination in all of their forms. Many students of American and African American literature and history know her as the author of acclaimed books like her fine memoir Proud Shoes—which told the extraordinary story of her childhood in her grandparents' North Carolina home and their family legacy of free Blacks, slaves, and slave owners—and her prizewinning poetry collection Dark Testament.

06/03/11

Child Watch® Column: "Remembering Dr. Benjamin E. Mays's Legacy"

Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, who was born in 1894 to former slaves, was an adviser to Presidents, mentor of mentors like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., lauded preacher and scholar, advocate for social justice, and the president of Morehouse College from 1940 to 1967.