“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 [...]
Read MoreI often write in this space about a national or global challenge confronting our children and recommend how readers might support a policy or initiative [...]
Read MoreA 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 MoreOn 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 MoreThis 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 MoreThe 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 MoreWith 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 MoreI 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 MoreAs 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 MoreAs 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 MoreIn 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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