Karen Pulfer Focht/The Commercial Appeal/ZUMANo, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads. By Erika Eichelberger | Originally Published at Mother Jones.March/April 2014 Issue 1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five [...]
By Avi Tuschman The Atlantic. February 28, 2014 In his State of the Union address, President Obama lamented how Washington “has been consumed by ... rancorous argument,” which over the past year has prevented us “from carrying out even the most basic functions of our democracy.” The [...]
Students at Yale University last spring. | Credit Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times By Robin J. Hayes | Originally Published at The Atlantic. February 27, 2014 Elite universities should not be asking, “Why do we have so few low-income students?” but “How do we have [...]
Generic image | THINKSTOCK By Jenée Desmond-Harris | Originally Published at The Root. February 26 2014 1:00 AMRace Manners: My white preschooler thinks she should do what “kids that are the same color” do at lunch. Help! “My 3-year-old daughter attends preschool at a public charter in [...]
By AJ Vicens and Brett Brownell | Originally Published at Mother Jones. February 19, 2014A new collection of data offers snapshots of life in black America, by the numbers.A lot of the stats you've heard about black America are wrong. Did you know that black high [...]
Will there is a will there is a way and some school districts have each. The question is do we have the will to educate our children or do we prefer to punish them for being eager children? Might we ask ourselves do we want a disciplined [...]
The Florida Board of Education set different proficiency goals for different racial groups. (Palm Beach Post file photo) By Leslie Postal | The Orlando Sentinel. February 14, 2014 Florida's race-based academic goals prompted controversy when they were adopted in 2012 -- and now have sparked an online [...]
The Florida state Board of Education passed a controversial plan to set reading and math goals based upon race. (Photo credit should read Frank Perry/AFP/GettyImages) By Lauren Roth | Originally Published at The Orlando Sentinel. August 2, 2013 The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Friday filed [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. February 13, 2014 The snow started in South Carolina on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, and when I woke up Thursday, February 13, the snow continued, laying down a powdery blanket on the ice crust formed [...]
