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What do parents want?
Seeing this sign in North Philadelphia reminded me that poor parents want the same thing as richer parents: To know that their children are safe while they are away from them. After all, isn’t this...
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Getting outside your neighborhood
Boys’ Latin Charter School in West Philadelphia is encouraging teenage boys to get outside their comfort zones and explore the city through ethnography. As the school’s co-founder and CEO explains:...
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Qualified kudos
When I first met a staffer from the GreenLight Fund, I was pretty skeptical of their stated approach. Assuming that there is no existing organization effectively solving your problem and parachuting in...
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Open up a universe
Ta-Nehisi Coates on what he says to young people who live in tough (or not-so-tough) neighborhoods: What I have come to believe is that children are more than what their circumstance put upon them. So...
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In the trenches
Following up on my earlier post about the School District’s layoffs, I thought I’d excerpt this stunner of a letter from one of those 3,800 laid-off employees. Photo credit: Alice Heller Good Morning,...
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Preaching it
A while back, I had the privilege of hearing Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speak. At one point during her talk, she recalled her starting salary just out of law school — $17,000. Supreme Court...
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Recording school history
Philadelphia-based photographer Zoe Strauss is nationally recognized for her work illuminating moments from everyday life. Now she and a group of other photographers have stepped forward to help...
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