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On The Margins: Here Is How Poverty Tastes In America
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo: Youtube Here’s how a New Orleans mother Sarah Davis describes poverty: “I can’t do a lot of the extra ...
Trump Administration Rolls Back Protection Against Harsh Punishments That Force Children Out of Schools
Donald Trump. His Education and Justice Departments set to place students of color at additional disadvantage. Photo: Gage Skidmore–Flickr In January 2014, the U.S. ...
Why Give $27 Billion In Estate-Tax Breaks For Rich When We Can Create Affordable Housing For Low-Income Families?
Marian Wright Edelman More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the Upper West ...
Reforming School Disciplining Policies And Practices Nationally
Marian Wright Edelman No child is expendable and every child deserves a right to learn I believe the purpose of public schools is ...
Seed Experiment: With Children We All Reap What We Sow
Marian Wright Edelman A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment”: A child plants identical seeds in two pots. ...
Deportations And Broken Families: Need Comprehensive Immigration Reform Now
Rep Boehner: No action on immigration reform [The Children’s Corner] Nine-year-old Jaime Gordillo Villa was born in the United States and is a good ...
