| Feb 3, 2016 | Editors Picks|Rights / DemocracyCarter G. Woodson was born in Virginia, 10 years after the fall of the Confederacy. Working as a sharecropper and a miner, he rarely had time to attend school until the age of 20. But he sure made up for lost time. Woodson would devote the rest of his life to...
| Jan 20, 2016 | Rights / DemocracyWe all remember the teachers who most influenced us. Life lessons learned in the classroom stay with you for decades. I was lucky to have several great teachers, but my fifth grade teacher stands out the most. Nancy Livingston taught for 25 years in Princeton, New...
| Dec 30, 2015 | Economy / BusinessAs the digital revolution hurtles ahead, low-income communities across the United States aren’t reaping many of its benefits. The less you make, the less likely it is that you’re hooked up at home. This is especially true if you lack a high school diploma. And the...
| | Environment / HealthLast year, I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions. But it appears that life made them for me. Two changes occurred in my life, and I responded. In retrospect, 2015 produced more personal growth than perhaps any other year of my life. The first change occurred...
| | Economy / BusinessThe nation’s for-profit, private college industry is a study in horror. Start with the fact that it actually calls itself an “industry.” Excuse me, but education is a social investment — not an industrial product. Next, this so-called...
