By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the Republican-led Congress prepares to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), civil rights...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist For 50 years Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) has been the primary...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist For 50 years Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) has been the primary...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist I’m grateful for a powerful new book, Girls In Justice by artist Richard Ross, a follow up to...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist It is a national moral disgrace that there are 14.7 million poor children and 6.5 million extremely poor children...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future,...