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We are in an academic crisis in our nation. Fewer minorities are graduating on time and many are starting school significantly behind their peers. Studies have found that only 30% of African American children enter kindergarten with basic language skills (i.e. recognizing letters of the alphabet).
One of the keys to increasing academic achievement is parental and family

For decades the U.S. has had the luxury of printing

What Comes Next for Wisconsin’s Fledgling Uprising
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.
Stephanie Haw needed a good cry.
On the night of August 9th, the rowdy crowd inside Hawk’s bar in downtown Madison grew ever quieter as the election results trickled in. Earlier that day, with the nation watching, voters statewide cast their ballots in Wisconsin’s eagerly awaited recall elections that threatened the seats of six Republican state senators. Democrats needed to win three of them to regain control of the state senate and block Republican Governor Scott Walker’s hard-line agenda. But it wasn’t to

Whether owned by athlete or actor, writer or rapper, plenty of celebrity-backed and athlete-owned restaurants go on to be, if not hits, at least moderate to decent successes. And there are occasional stars, like Robert De Niro, who, except for the occasional miss (read: the New York outpost of Ago), pretty much seem to have the restaurant business (or good luck) down pat (Locanda Verde, Nobu, and Tribeca Grill). Then there are those big names who are just outright failures at the restaurant game.
Eva Longoria is experiencing the perils of the restaurant business firsthand. Just this week it was reported that restaurant and casino operator Landry’s Restaurants

“I like all of the classes,” said eight-year-old Jada Lowery of the offerings at Mighty Writers. “I just can’t decide.”
When first entering Mighty Writers at 1501 Christian in South Philadelphia you are greeted by a large red and white “MW”sign with surrounding comic book phrases:
* “thwack,”
* “ooof,”
* “bam,”
* “ka-pow.”
This is the main studio where teens are assisted in SAT preparation by tutors. The studio is neatly lined with tables for the students and their tutors to work. Frames of comic book covers decorate the

The images from the Horn of Africa are haunting. We remember vividly the misery that hung over the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya when we visited in 2008 and 2009. Even then, the camps were overcrowded, underserved and unsafe — especially for women and girls. Now we read that more than 1,500 Somali drought victims are arriving daily in the Dadaab

By Alexandra Duszak, iWatch NewsChildren of the nation’s military personnel aren’t the only students who have reason to worry about decrepit, sometimes hazardous conditions at their schools. Hundreds of Native American children attend schools that haven’t properly disposed of hazardous waste, haven’t contained asbestos in heating systems, and whose water systems exceed the maximum allowable level for arsenic in tap water – conditions barred under federal environmental laws.
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Can someone – anyone – tell me why the Republicans in Congress keep saying ‘no new taxes’?
It can’t be because they think our economy is improving. It’s clear to everybody – Democrats and Republicans alike – that our economy is wheezing and mired in a nearly four-year-long jobless recovery with still more than 29 million real unemployed workers.
It can’t be because of economic theory. Economists are notorious for their disagreements, yet almost every single credible economist, including Republican favorites like Reagan economic advisors Martin Feldstein and David Stockman, believes we need a combination of revenue increases and budget cuts to get our fiscal house in

Twenty years ago filmmaker Julie Dash celebrated the release of her groundbreaking film Daughters of the Dust. The film, set off the South Carolina coast, chronicles the lives of a black family, led by family matriarch Nana Peazant, at the turn of the 20th Century. Shot by cinematographer Arthur Jafa the film offers a brilliant portrait of black life, between and betwixt the modernity that would radically transform it. The film also offers one of the most complex and sophisticated views of the lives of black women in the

We all have little stirrings on the inside, but do we really listen to them? Do we pay attention to them? Most likely when you have a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and get into nature, then when you hear the snap of a twig or the crunching of a leaf, you become much more in tune with the dance of life and how you fit into the patterns of the universe. But first you have to hear that sound! These sounds lead to all sorts of resolutions and answers — they truly do!
When a reader wrote and asked about having the Golden Door experience for her own, I thought I might share a few tips that I picked up so you could benefit from the inner wisdom I gained, and one of these examples would certainly be the quiet and calm that can be found in nature. I believe so many answers are in nature, and certainly those little voices telling us whether to have another child, ask for a raise or try our hands at our own businesses can be heard in the quietude of nature — when we are alone with our thoughts, and we can see them in the tapestry of the whole.
If you can find a nice place to walk that perhaps has a little grade to it, and add a little shade to it, then you would have two ingredients that I enjoyed at the Golden Door. If you are in a flat place, then so be it, and if you have no trees to supply shade, then that’s

There’s a lot to like about Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, particularly because director Troy Nixey isn’t afraid to keep you in suspense, wondering just what it is we’re dealing with in this movie.
That’s the point of any horror film: to crank up the dread for as long as possible before revealing just what it is that the audience is afraid of. Tension is exquisite; so is mystery. The menace you can see is never as frightening as the one you imagine.
Yet, to Nixey’s advantage, even when he reveals the tiny monsters at the center of this film, he resists showing us just how malevolent and destructive they can be. So when they finally unleash their full power, it’s like watching that footage of the tsunami in Japan: The wave just keeps coming, building in intensity and danger beyond what you thought was possible.
At the center of Dark is Alex (Guy Pearce), a divorced architect who, with his fianc/partner Kim (Katie Holmes), is in the midst of restoring a fabulous old mansion in Rhode

Being popular used to be a lot easier. It used to be more feeling than fact. But now with followers and friends, people and businesses can, for the first time, quantify their popularity. This also has meant that all types of content, even down to status updates, are under pressure to generate feedback and

As Labor Day approaches and the Hamptons look less like the beaches in Pepsi commercials and more like the beaches in “LOST,” you may find yourself thinking more about what’s next in your life. If it’s back-to-school, back-to-work or back-to-a-job-search, you may feel a tinge, a pang or a wallop of sadness over the end of summer. In some places, like New York, you can literally feel the change coming in the coolness beneath the morning air. In more temperate climates, the change may be harder to track, but it is undoubtedly

Despite the volumes of books and magazine articles advising midlife baby boomers how to prolong or renew their health, happiness and vitality, I continue to hear many of them tell me about feelings of stagnation and loss. Or worse, a sense of being on “a long slide home,” as one 50-something put it.
For example:
You happened to catch an old episode of “Sesame Street” or “Mister Rogers” on TV, and you felt engulfed by a wave of nostalgia and loss over your children, who are now grown and building their own lives without you.
You worry about whether your career has peaked, especially when you’re reminded every day of the hordes of younger people coming up right behind you — or who’ve now moved ahead of you.
You’re divorced and dealing with new challenges as a single person.
Or, you’re married/with a partner, but feelings of passion and intimacy have faded like autumn leaves.
You’re stressed about your financial future in your later years, given our economic uncertainty.
I think there’s a core reason why such feelings and experiences aren’t helped all that much by the midlife guides and programs out there: We’ve learned to experience midlife through a mentality that keeps us frozen within feelings of loss, regret and fears about change. That paralyzes our capacity for consciously-created actions, ones that can generate renewed energy, creativity and engagement in the period of life we’re now living through.
What can help free you from that sense of sinking, sliding and stagnating — the “big three” of midlife despair — is first, learning to mentally reframe your current experience of loss, regret and the like. And secondly, using that new perspective to identify and undertake actions that serve something beyond preoccupation with

CNN is about to air a fantastic documentary called “The Last Heart Attack,” featuring Drs. Ornish and Esselstyn talking about successfully preventing, stopping and even reversing our number one killer — heart disease — with a plant-based diet.
Though billed as the latest cutting-edge treatment, Dean Ornish M.D. and Caldwell Esselstyn

In two earlier posts (which I hope you will go back and read) we found that stress is a complicated matter that intertwines body and mind. Mechanical stress is simple. If you put pressure on a car engine or airplane wing long enough, it will weaken and eventually break down. But human beings are set up

As soon as that light flashes, you must check your phone. It’s like a reflex — you don’t even notice how constantly checking your phone affects you and the people around you. If extraterrestrials observed our day-to-day lives, they would wonder how these little devices were able to take complete control over humans.
In this age of technology, it seems we are constantly attached to our iPhones, Blackberrys, iPads, laptops, anything that beeps, blinks or

President Obama is preparing to propose a jobs bill which will seek to address the chronic unemployment in the US, likely through a combination of payroll tax cuts, extending unemployment benefits and some public spending. To describe this proposal by the President as a day late and a dollar short would be extremely generous. Obama is already two years late and several billion dollars short in his efforts to generate employment.
For Obama to begin talk of legislation to create more jobs following signing off on a Republican debt ceiling deal which has had the predictable, and predicted, result of causing the country to move ever closer to another recession seems almost surreal, as if the President seems almost unaware of the damage his failure to stand up to the right wing extremists who now constitute the Republican Party has done.
This bill almost certainly has its origins both in Obama’s need to address the problem of widespread unemployment as well as for the President to regain the political upper hand in the jobs debate. While it is good that the President is concerned about unemployment and preparing to try to address this problem, albeit through proposals that will inevitably end up being too modest to make a significant difference, it is troubling that this far into his term, Obama is still searching for a way to both help develop jobs and to demonstrate that he is genuinely concerned with the widespread unemployment that has existed since he took office.
There are many things about Obama’s presidency that are inexplicable, not just to those who criticize him from the left, but to those who are frustrated with the President’s seeming inability to play an ongoing leadership role in addressing the country’s economic

Why on earth would anyone want to be famous? This is a question I have pondered often during my adult life. Although I’ve certainly not faced the dilemma firsthand, I did have a chance to witness the next best thing, growing up and seeing the spectacular transformation of my father, Joseph Heller, author extraordinaire. No one else I’ve ever known complained so much about going to parties, then arrived so early and stayed so late. He relished every interview, every opportunity to plug the merch, even if before and afterwards he joked about what a moron his interlocutor

Like millions of people, I grew up thinking of Lord Shiva simply as Lord Shiva, a God, one of the many forms of God. From his depictions in paintings and sculpture, he was clearly a smiling, adoring, adored sort, despite slightly wild hair and wild creatures around him. His consort, the Goddess Parvathi, was the Mother-supreme in our minds — Ammavaru, we called her in Telugu. There was even a term our elders used for the two of them: Aadi dampatulu, the primeval

On the morning of June 22, 1633 in the hall of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minvera in Rome, Galileo Galilei knelt before the Lord-Cardinal Inquisitors-General and publicly abjured his false opinion that the sun was the motionless center of the universe. Thus ended Galileo’s personal trials; but the “Galileo affair,” with its myriad attendant controversies and consequences rippling across the centuries, was just commencing. “Affair” rightly characterizes the tangled personal and political intrigues pervading this particular piece of jurisprudence.
But however thick it was with complicating and mitigating factors, in the end the Catholic Church blew it — something acknowledged centuries later by a Pope proudly nurtured in Copernicus’ homeland: “[Galileo] had to suffer a great deal — we cannot conceal the fact — at the hands of men and organisms of the Church” (Pope John Paul II,

Here in Arizona Alice Cooper says, “I wanna love you but I better not touch.”
Much commotion has been made concerning a recent Republican effort to win over Latino voting support. While it might be admirable for the GOP to make an attempt to reach out to Latinos during a Presidential election year, I am afraid that their efforts will be fruitless until they reverse the actions of their dismal record regarding last December’s 2010 DREAM Act vote. We are now seeing former Senator Norm Coleman attempting to win over Latino voters via his Hispanic Leadership Network program, even though he told me in March of this year that the GOP cannot support legal immigration reform because it is simply not their priority. Fair enough, but given that, Latinos should not prioritize voting for the GOP.
The Republican Party can no longer claim to be pro-family, when over one million families have been forced apart or detained through their “attrition through enforcement”

When I wrote a Generation X memoir of our baby boomer parents’ divorces, and our own that we try to stave off at all costs, I expected to get a lot of flack from baby boomers–especially from moms. The statistics measuring their child-rearing skills were grim. Frankly, they just weren’t there.
After the epidemic divorces of the ’70s and ’80s were finalized, the dads mainly receded into the background (as everyone whose dad went through the Disco Dan phase can

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