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- 12/20/11 - Video
Whoopi Recounts a Christmas Story
12/15/11 - Video
Cyrus Dennis: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Cyrus Dennis: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
12/15/11 - Video
Linda Hyginus: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Linda Hyginus: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
12/15/11 - Video
Jane Soliternik: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Jane Soliternik: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
12/15/11 - Video
Ninaad Dave: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Ninaad Dave: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
12/15/11 - Video
Javon Mullings: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Javon Mullings: 2011 CDF - New York Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
12/07/11 - Video
Britany Lewis: 2011 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
In the face of abandonment, homelessness, and physical abuse, Britany Lewis has stood tall against odds that have threatened to destroy her dreams. Despite it all, Brittany believes, “I overcame the things from my past because I refuse to let them hold me back.
12/07/11 - Video
Nancy Kannampuzha: 2011 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Despite betrayal and abandonment at an early age, Nancy has emerged as a beacon of light and a champion for countless young people who have been silenced by physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.
12/07/11 - Video
John Jimenez: 2011 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
From an early age, John Jimenez had to become the “man of the house” as he dealt with the challenges of his brother being born with cerebral palsy, his family was financially devastated, his parents eventually divorced, and his mother struggled to find work.
12/07/11 - Video
Jeannette Wright: 2011 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
As the child of a deaf mother and a deaf and mute father, Jeannette has assumed adult responsibilities for much of her young life. Living on Social Security benefits and food stamps, Jeannette’s parents have struggled to provide for their daughter and have often gone hungry when resources are limited.
12/07/11 - Video
Caylin Moore: 2011 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
At the age of six, Caylin Moore’s mother took the courageous step to leave a volatile home plagued by domestic violence. She raised Caylin and his two siblings as a single mother, entered and finished law school, and saved her children from a vicious cycle of abuse.
11/16/11 - Video
Leland Kraatz: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Leland Kraatz: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/16/11 - Video
Anh Luong: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Anh Luong: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/16/11 - Video
Andrew Finein: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Andrew Finein: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/16/11 - Video
Mustafaa Nuraldin: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat The Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Mustafaa Nuraldin: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat The Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/16/11 - Video
Thurman Anderson: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat The Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Thurman Anderson: 2011 Washington D.C. Beat The Odds® Scholarship Recipient
08/10/11 - Video
Linda Sullivan-Dudzic: Implementing the Early Learning Continuum
Linda Sullivan-Dudzic, Special programs Director, Bremerton (WA) School District, gives specific details of how Bremerton School District in Washington transformed student achievement by implementing the pre-k-third grade model and how critical full-day kindergarten is to their success.
08/10/11 - Video
Kristie Kauerz: A Full-Day Kindergarten Myth
Dr. Kauerz explains the structural components of the pre-k-third grade early learning continuum with an emphasis on the need for all components to be high quality and coordinated for the desired child outcomes to occur. Dr. Kaurez speaks to the value of public school full-day kindergarten in the educational system in this country and reminds us currently attendance in kindergarten for some is based on luck and wealth.
07/14/11 - Video
2011 National Day of Social Action
Scholars from the SEED-CDF Freedom Schools® site in Riverdale, Maryland, write letters to Congress encouraging them to support education funding as part of the National Day of Social Action on July 13, 2011.
06/23/11 - Video
Thomas Shultz: Full-Day Kindergarten Makes a Difference
As program director of the Next Generation Learners Council of Chief State School Officers, Thomas Schultz explains the reciprocal relationship between educating a child and the role of community engagement.
06/23/11 - Video
Lisa Guernsey: The Benefits of Full-Day Kindergarten
Lisa Guernsey, program director of the Early Education Initiative at the New America Foundation, explains that early education is an essential building block to getting children started on the right track and how research supports full-day kindergarten as a way for a child to make nice gains in later schooling. Guernsey says children cannot be expected to carry the full load of first or second grade without the introduction to learning kindergarten provides.
06/23/11 - Video
Jerlean E. Daniel: Full-Day Kindergarten Left Behind
Jerlean E. Daniel, executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, stresses that school should be a continuation of experiences and kindergarten serves as the launching point for building a love for learning and how without full-day kindergarten, children face many more challenges both academically and developmentally.
06/23/11 - Video
Carol Brunson Day: Building an Early Childhood System
Carol Brunson Day, president and CEO of the National Black Child Development Institute, discusses the need for quality, vibrant Pre-K and full-day kindergarten and how these programs foster continued success in school.
03/29/11 - Video
From Head Start to Harvard
Here is the story of Angelica Salazar and her development from a Head Start student to a Harvard University student. Yet another example of why Head Start works!
03/24/11 - Video
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Praises CDF Freedom Schools
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praises the successes of the CDF Freedom Schools® program at a March 15th meeting at CDF. Freedom Schools improve child literacy by instilling a love of reading while providing positive role models through mentoring from student leader interns.
03/24/11 - Video
Improving Support for Teachers: No More One-Shot Workshops at the Mariott
Amy Wilkins, Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications at the Education Trust, talks about improving support for teachers through improved evaluation systems, and the need to provide low-income and minority children with “more than their fair share” of resources—including highly effective teachers.
03/23/11 - Video
Juvenile Court Judges Have Bigger Fish to Fry Than Suspended Students
Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director of the Advancement Project, discusses collaboration between school administrators, juvenile justice officials, and local police to change the status quo on discipline, and urges advocates to spend an hour in a juvenile justice courtroom.
03/23/11 - Video
Arrests in School: Where the Pipeline to Prison Begins
Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director of the Advancement Project, discusses how policing in schools and excessive discipline open the pipeline to prison for many young black students.
03/23/11 - Video
Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Hurt Children
Bob Greenstein from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities discusses the crisis children face by proposed federal budget cuts with Black community and faith leaders at the Children's Defense Fund.
03/23/11 - Video
Reevaluating School Discipline: Keep Kids in School
Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director of the Advancement Project, talks about successes in Baltimore and Denver, where new approaches to school discipline are associated with higher graduation rates.
03/23/11 - Video
Mythbuster
Amy Wilkins, Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications at the Education Trust, refutes the myth that low-income and minority children are “too damaged” to learn.- 03/23/11 - Video
Babies are Not the Problem
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addresses a group of Black community and faith leaders at the Children's Defense Fund, discussing the economic and moral imperative we have to improve education in the United States. 
03/23/11 - Video
Cheating our Children
Amy Wilkins, Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications at the Education Trust, explains why and how poor and minority students are being cheated when it comes to their education. Across our country, our most vulnerable students are given the poorest schools, the newest teachers, and the least resources.
03/23/11 - Video
I Wish Parents Were Telling Me to Go Faster
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan tells Black community and faith leaders at the Children's Defense Fund that he wishes parents would demand more from our country's education system.
03/22/11 - Video
The Talk - Marian Wright Edelman on Children Poverty in America
Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman talks about American children living in poverty and advises on how we can help make a difference.
01/04/11 - Video
Giovanni Soto: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
Giovanni Soto: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
01/04/11 - Video
Hsiao-Wei Monica Banks: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
Hsiao-Wei Monica Banks: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
01/04/11 - Video
Jonathan Calderon: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
Jonathan Calderon: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
01/04/11 - Video
Erica Limón: 2010 CDF California Beat the Odds® Honoree
Erica Limón: 2010 CDF California Beat the Odds® Honoree
01/04/11 - Video
Wilson Khauv: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
Wilson Khauv: 2010 CDF-California Beat the Odds® Honoree
11/11/10 - Video
Chelsea Kraatz: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Chelsea Kraatz: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
Nick Mugge: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Nick Mugge: 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
I'eisha Williams: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
Arianna McQuillen: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Arianna McQuillan: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
11/11/10 - Video
Asia Smith: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
Asia Smith: 2010 Washington D.C. Beat the Odds® Scholarship Recipient
09/20/10 - Video
Department of Education’s TEACH Campaign Video
07/19/10 - Video
Freedom Schools 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
Sec. Duncan Address to Graduates of the 2010 CDF Freedom Schools® National Training
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
Speaking for Children: Teaching Children Math, Part 5
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
Speaking for Children: Teaching Children Math, Part 4
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.
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