“WE NEED MORE FACE TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN”
I often write in this space about a national or global challenge confronting our children and recommend how readers might support a policy or initiative [...]
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“EMPOWERING MOTHERS AROUND THE WORLD”
A family lives in a small village by a river—a mother, two girls and a boy. The water isn't clean, but the children play in [...]
Read More“VOTING RIGHTS AND JUNE JOHNSON”
On August 6, we observe the anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This landmark legislation struck down a range of [...]
Read More“MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR PATRICK’S FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLAN PROMISES A WAY UP”
This June, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced a visionary initiative to expand public education to include two years of free community college for every high [...]
Read More“THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S WRONG TURN ON RACIAL EQUALITY”
The July 28th U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down voluntary school integration plans in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, will erode gains in racial [...]
Read More“PRESIDENT BUSH NEEDS TO BE A POSITIVE LEADER ON CHILD HEALTH CARE, NOT A NEGATIVE ONE”
With 9 million children in America lacking health insurance and reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) pending in Congress before it expires [...]
Read More“SICKO INDICTS AMERICA’S HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY”
I am not in the habit of doing movie reviews but I recommend everyone see Michael Moore's documentary "SiCKO" about our health care system which [...]
Read More“MEDICARE OVERPAYMENTS TO PRIVATE INSURERS ARE HAZARDOUS TO CHILDREN’S HEALTH”
As Congress considers the renewal of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) over the next few weeks and months, we are pushing legislators to [...]
Read More“THE ENDURING MISSION OF FREEDOM SCHOOLS”
As a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s, I saw courageous college students organizing Freedom Schools in Mississippi to prepare desperately poor, semi-literate, and disenfranchised [...]
Read More“AN APPROPRIATE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL CHILD’S DAY”
In President George W. Bush's May 31st National Child's Day proclamation, he pledged to provide our children "with the care, protection and education they deserve." [...]
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