Education

How many likes did you receive on your last post? Are you satisfied with that number of likes? Jordan Wells once believed that social media was the beginning of great success for his career, his relationships with people, his whole life in general. Wells...

An urgent picture of medical care in our cities, written by an emergency room physician (and co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Pact) who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving"A pull-no-punches look at health care from a...

Lincoln University was founded in 1866 for the education of freed blacks after the Civil War. This book focuses on the years between 1920 and 1970, a span of time during which many of the university'smost signifi cant developments occurred. During this...

Parents, young people, community organizers, and educators describe how they are fighting systemic racism in schools by building a new intersectional educational justice movement. Illuminating the struggles and triumphs of the emerging educational...

A call to action for building a culture of literacy for all students in their pursuit of the American Dream. Award-winning principal and literacy advocate Don Vu examines six conditions of a school's culture of literacy (Commitment, Collection, Clock,...

In this forthright critique of the press as a threat to American democracy and a danger to the value of liberty at large, Lippman asserts the central, indispensable connection between liberty and truth. Taking aim at the press, Lippman denounces its...

I am happy knowing that my many years of working with and facilitating children has been a challenging and rewarding experience for my life and ministry. I thank God for His leadership and the work that is in progress in my life. For, "Where He Leads Me"...

Winner of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines Brute. Cockroach. Lice. Vermin. People often regard members of their own...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...

"Provocative and personally searching" -San Francisco Chronicle One mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school, and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors. From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her...

Larry P. Revisited is a timely effort on the part of a group of dedicated professionals to address failures to afford quality education for African American students because of faulty testing procedures. America can't afford to fail to fully educate its...