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We have to fix this

February 2, 2013
A few years ago I saw a video that shocked me : Two young children crying, alone in a car, reaching out for their mother who'd been taken away by armed deputies wearing ski masks after being stopped for a minor traffic violation. The images haven't left me. A nightmare, right? Never in America?...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Childcare & Early Education

Early Childhood Education IS important (for ALL!)

February 1, 2013
As a parent of a 21 month old, I have found myself thinking about childcare and school options a lot lately. Earlier this week, as I watched the inauguration of Barack Obama with my son, I thought about how great it would be if early childhood education was something that the administration could...
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Diana Limongi

SUPER BLOG-OFF: Let’s Win This Thing, California!

February 1, 2013
Editor's note from the Say Ahhh! blog: Happy Super Bowl Weekend! As diehard Say Ahhh! fans know, that means its time for our annual Super Blog-Off. This year, we’ve asked the blogging teams to face off on which state has done more to make the promise of the Affordable Care Act a reality for its...
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Kristen Golden Testa
Food!

Support for Smart Snacks in School

February 1, 2013
Let’s be clear: I support giving children choices and empowering them to make good ones. Those are crucial life skills that need to be reinforced at home and at school. That being said, the adults at home and at school have a responsibility to make sure that the choices presented are all healthy...
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Kate Uslan
Immigration

Immigrants are People Who Move

February 1, 2013
For my grandmother, Obdulia Olivella, moving was a part of life. She was born in El Salvador and moved to Panama as a young woman to help her U.S.-born husband start a business. Over the next couple of decades, they would move with four children in tow to the United States, back to Panama, then to...
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Mary Olivella
Immigration

"I don't want to leave my school and this country."

January 31, 2013
As I listened to the barrage of news this week on immigration, I kept thinking about an 8-year-old girl I met in Georgia in 2011. Melanie is a star student and Girl Scout. Her mother bravely spoke to a group of women delegates about how Georgia's treatment of immigrants was affecting families...
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Mary Olivella

Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Idiots

January 31, 2013
If I hear once more that the reason for the wage gap is that women don't negotiate, I may just blow a gasket. Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask" industry, has shown that women don't negotiate for a very simple reason: they sense—correctly—that...
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Joan C. Williams

Head Start Works. What the Research Really Shows

January 31, 2013
Head Start works. A new study is sparking a debate about just how well the early education program works because it shows Head Start’s impact fades out during the first four grades of elementary school. Now some analysts are using the findings as political leverage to suggest overhauling the...
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Paul Nyhan
Health Care Childcare & Early Education

Teen Mom's School Refuses to Let Her Pump Milk

January 31, 2013
Yesterday a friend posted a link to a Facebook group I'm in about Jaielyn, a high school sophomore in Delaware whose school won't let her pump or store breast milk at school. I read the article and my head spun. I've been here before. I got pregnant at the end of my sophomore year of high school...
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Charlie Rose

Without Us, You’re Nothing

January 31, 2013
Remember when Mika Brezezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, put out her book Knowing Your Value ? It was advertised as a “surprisingly honest and unexpectedly revealing look at gender inequality in the workplace.” Mika argued that women generally underestimate their own worth and, for this...
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Valerie Young

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