I heard Abner Mikva’s story before I ever met Abner Mikva. I was a seventh-grader on the West Side of Chicago, desperately addicted to Windy City politics, community organizing and the like, when I...
It's time for the Fourth of July! A time for cook outs, pool parties, and family but to me it's more than coordinating a "red, white, and blue" outfit and watching fireworks. Every year I observe the...
Tony Brown is the executive director of Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), a nonprofit organization in the Rampart district that provides after-school academic and arts programs for over 2,300 children...
New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles: These cities and countless others across the United States have dealt with scandals involving their public school systems over the...
While turf wars are being waged between traditional public schools and charter schools across the nation, the District of Columbia is leading the way showing how they can collaborate to avoid the...
