The Great Disruption

“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations...

Failing Our Children

Following up on my blog post titled “The State of America’s Children 2011,” I want to return to a little-noticed story from earlier this summer on college-readiness. Sharon Otterman, writing in The New York Times, reviewed the dismal data that the New York State...

Our Children, An Ever-Growing Crisis

Charles Blow of The New York Times recently selected some of the saddest and most depressing statics from the recently released “The State of America’s Children 2011” report, issued last month by the Children’s Defense Fund.  The report highlights the impact of the...