2015/5/20-The greatest barriers to school success for K-12 students have little to do with anything that goes on in the classroom, according to the nation’s top teachers: It is family stress, followed by poverty, and learning and psychological problems. Those …..
2015/05/19 – The nation’s second-largest city voted on Tuesday to increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in what is perhaps the most significant victory so far in the national push to raise the minimum wage. The increase …..
2015/5/19-The first time I traveled to Georgia’s Montgomery County, in 2002, it felt like a very familiar and friendly American suburb. Kids were cheering at the local high school’s homecoming parade. The community appeared to be very mixed and well …..
Why integrating America’s neighborhoods and cities is harder than we think. 2015/5/15-There’s no question that white Americans prefer white neighborhoods. As I noted in a Wednesday column, “20 percent of whites said their ideal neighborhood was all white … [a]nd only …..
2015/05/15 – Mississippi has screened 5,578 TANF applicants for drug use since August. Only eight (0.14 percent) have tested positive. Mississippi does not offer many lifelines to families who fall onto hard times. One of the few is Temporary Assistance for …..
