A four-part video series from the National Council of Churches Committee on Public Education and Literacy, featuring discussions with John Jackson, President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and education historian Diane Ravitch.
In her "Child Watch" column, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund draws attention to an exceptionally timely topic -- the over-reliance on counterproductive zero tolerance policies and the resulting school-to-prison pipeline.