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Back to the Basics Is the Key to Teaching Our Children to Read
- Education, Family, Featured, Literature, Politics, Uncategorized
- October 13, 2025
It was six months ago but feels like just yesterday. On Feb. 14, a deranged teen attacked students and staff members at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17. Like millions of parents and grandparents across America, I was transfixed by the news that day, watching the coverage with horror. I grieved for
READ MOREIn 1961, I participated in what one newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, called “one of the most ambitious experiments in race-mixing the South had seen.” With the nation in turmoil, 25 other black students and I helped integrate an all-white junior high school. Outside the school, we faced angry crowds determined to prevent us from getting
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