Fighting Obesity in the Classroom

As a co-founder and the current creative director of the Rancho La Puerta fitness resort and Golden Door spas, Deborah Szekely has long been known as a pioneer in health and wellness. She’s now focusing on a new target audience: our nation’s children....
School Diversity under Siege

School Diversity under Siege

The South has made more progress in providing children the opportunity to attend desegregated schools. Now, sadly, it’s also the region where re-segregation is growing fastest. When the Supreme Court issued its pivotal Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954,...

Show Some Guts: Stop the Cuts

From now well into the fall, a big story will unfold across the United States. Big as in bad. It will be terrible for our children, our communities, even the future of our country. I’m talking about massive cuts in public services, particularly in the area of...