In September 1957, nine Black teenagers started the new school year and changed history. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria [...]
Read MoreThousands of students who attended Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer enrichment programs this year are now headed back to school armed with the [...]
Read MoreHistory is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there [...]
Read More“Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” [...]
Read More“Freedom School, how do you feel? “Fantastic! Terrific! GRRRREAT! All! Day! Long!” If you heard a call-and-response chant like this, you might be sitting in [...]
Read MoreWhen President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Atlanta recently to address the urgent need for voting rights legislation, they chose to [...]
Read More“It’s about culturally responsive instruction and pedagogy . . .When they come into the classroom, each student has genius-level talent. Culturally, if you meet them [...]
Read More“To America’s children, families, and educators, the last two school years have not gone the way you planned. You’ve missed chances to connect, share, and [...]
Read MoreAs a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant — and I [...]
Read More“We must all learn to live together as brothers in this world or we will all die together as fools. We must work passionately [...]
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