by Jason Coker | Sep 6, 2019 | Opinion
When I hear the word “literacy,” it becomes very personal. My grandmother was the strongest and toughest person I ever knew as a child. When she was a little girl – a “tweenager” – she could pick 300 pounds of cotton a day. That’s about a quarter acre of land and what...
by Charles Foster Johnson | Sep 6, 2019 | Opinion
As pastors and faith leaders in our communities, we and our congregations are very close to our schools. We believe education is nothing less than discovering and identifying God’s creation. In this sense, education is the will of God for all people. Education is a...
by Karen Morrow | Sep 6, 2019 | Opinion
Learning is fun! Weekly, one can find recently resettled refugee preschoolers from around the world and their parents in apartment clubhouses throughout Fort Worth, Texas, singing, dancing, reading and learning. “Put your finger in the air, in the air. Put your finger...
by Trevor Barton | Sep 5, 2019 | Opinion
Today, I got down to the eye level of my fourth-grade students. I mean this both literally and figuratively. The older I get, the tougher it is to literally lean down to hear the words they are saying, to read the sentences they are writing and to see the work they...
by Alia Abboud | Sep 5, 2019 | Opinion
His eyes open wide with excitement, you could not miss his joy and deep sense of achievement as 11-year-old Fahd* dragged me by the arm to where he had just written his name on his own – and for the first time. The expression on his face was similar to the one I saw...
