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11/11/10 - Video
Arianna McQuillan: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
Nick Mugge: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
Chelsea Kraatz: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
I'eisha Williams: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/10/10 - Photo
2010 Washington, D.C. Beat the Odds Awards Ceremony Slide Show
09/20/10 - Video
07/19/10 - Video
Freedom School Partners is dedicated to serving at-risk students and families living in poverty in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their mission is to engage, educate and empower children to succeed in school and in life through quality, year-round educational enrichment programs. They work with community partners, offering after school programs during the school year as well as Children Defense Fund's Freedom Schools® programs in the summer, to improve academic achievement, reduce dropout rates, and inspire the love of reading.
06/21/10 - Video
U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, makes a personal address to graduates of the 2010 CDF Freedom Schools® Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute week long National Training.
06/18/10 - Video
In this last segment in a series of five focused on math and early childhood development, Dr. Cathy Grace discusses how parents and caregivers can begin teaching basic math concepts to children and help them develop fractional comprehension and a mathematical vocabulary which will serve them as they enter their formative school years.
06/11/10 - Video
In this fourth segment in a series of five focused on math and early childhood development, Dr. Cathy Grace discusses how parents and caregivers can begin teaching basic math concepts to children by actively engaging them through interactive lessons at the grocery store.