Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Since the release of my book “Fatherhood Rising To The Ultimate Challenge” last year, I have traveled the country to encourage young people that they can be anything they want to be in life no matter what their circumstances.

Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, has delivered a brutal, 100- page post-mortem of the shellacking they got at the hands of President Obama and congressional Democrats. 

 Like most autopsies, it wasn’t pretty -- and, in my view, it wasn’t particularly surprising. 

If Lil' Wayne has a drug problem, I wish he'd just come out and tell America about it. You can waste your time making fun of TMZ for their reporting on the story, but face the facts: Dwayne Carter, Jr., was in Cedars-Sinai hospital for nearly a week after suffering at least one seizure and his history of drug use is well-documented. 

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to confirm that Beyonce has referred to herself as a feminist in the past.

After Beyonce’s Superbowl halftime show last month, The Atlantic sought to settle the debate about whether or not “the singer is a bona fide feminist or just a pop star cashing in on ‘girl power’.’” Highlighting eight moments in her career that seemingly suggest she is a feminist, writer Sophie Weiner concluded that Beyonce had a “message of empowerment” for women. 

One of the most persistent criticisms of jazz is that it doesn’t attract a young black audience. But if you check out Bohemian Cavernson Monday nights, you’ll find a scene that bucks that tired trope. Each and every week, the timeless jazz club on U Street hosts a capacity multigenerational and multicultural audience with plenty young and  fresh black faces as they swing to sounds of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra

While education reformers struggle to compete with opponents to make a case for bold and urgent change, parents in Prince George’s County are going to great lengths to signal how much they value quality education and how urgent quality education is to them.

When Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III announced that he was launching a takeover bid of the struggling public school system, I couldn’t help but to reflect on the countless times I’ve heard something similar in my career as an educator.

 The principal wanted the boy expelled.

“We can’t teach every child because Clarence is a terror,” he pleaded to the discipline committee. “He disrupts the environment.”

But the CEO of the charter school network balked. “Terror? He’s a 9th-grader who got into a fight. What about the bottom line? We don’t get rid of kids for childish behavior. We teach them.”

The unrest started last Saturday soon after 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot down in Brooklyn by plainclothes NYPD officers. Outraged over his death, local residents took to the streets in East Flatbush for several nights of protest, resulting in over 40 arrests, looting and scuffles with the police.

On Tuesday’s episode of Know-It-All: The ABCs of Education, entitled “No More Kids in Jail: A Holistic Look at Student Discipline,” my guest was David Domenici, executive director and founder of the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings (CEEAS.

In our national conversations about equality and justice in America, we have too often avoided the conversation about the realities of women and mothers in the workforce. This is particularly odd given that women comprise half of the entire paid labor force, three-quarters of moms are now in the labor force, and most families now need two breadwinners to make ends meet.

My friend e-mailed me the flier to ask what I thought.

On the right-hand corner, her 8-year-old son struck a playful pose, singing into a giant plastic microphone. Beside him, the text read: “J----- deserves a second chance?”

My friend e-mailed me the flier to ask what I thought.

On the right-hand corner, her 8-year-old son struck a playful pose, singing into a giant plastic microphone. Beside him, the text read: “J----- deserves a second chance?”