By Kim Dancy This September, more than 49 million students will return to public school classrooms across the country. By June, these students will have received a minimum of 160 days of instruction from nearly four million teachers. These same students will complete a gauntlet of tests, designed to measure academic proficiency in reading, math […]
A Good Education is a Privilege All Children Should Have
By Henry Schleifer This article originally appeared in the Wilmington News-Journal. New beginnings are ripe for new perspectives. As young freshmen descend on college campuses across the country, I have been reflecting on my own undergraduate experience and thinking about my own journey to college. I grew up in the suburbs where property values were […]