Children in Poverty

Sargent Shriver, the architect of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, died in mid-January.  As I read his obituary, I was overcome by a wave of nostalgia for a storied age of U.S. social policy.
Here’s a snapshot of that period:  In 1963, the same year that Martin Luther King told the nation of his “dream,” an [... click post title to read more ...]

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A Bronx Tale: Partnering from Cradle to Career

As state economies tank and ECE moves lower on the policy agenda—our President mentioned nada about early childhood in his State of the Union—we need some cheering up.  So here’s a quick update on collaboration and synergy, from early to higher education, in the Bronx.

 But first, some hard, cold data:

40 percent of children in the [... click post title to read more ...]

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