by Dan DeMarle | May 10, 2023 | Parents/Guardians, Pregnancy, Race/Racism
“One of racism’s subtlest legacies is to make it harder for black people to know when our fears are rational.” A Litany for...
by Dan DeMarle | May 10, 2023 | Parents/Guardians, Race/Racism
“Having a black child in America has always been an act of faith. In the antebellum South, one in every two children born to an enslaved woman was stillborn or died within a year. If they lived, the babies were often sold away from their mothers. Black women in...
by Dan DeMarle | May 5, 2023 | Parents/Guardians, Recommended Reading, Risk Factors, Uncategorized
“Choosing to have a child outside of marriage may be an individual choice, but condemning many of those parents and their children to a life of poverty is a societal one.”― Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 25, 2023 | Adolescent/Teen, Mental Health, Parents/Guardians
The report from the Children’s Agenda Countywide Survey of 600 Monroe County Parents about their children are faring and the supports they need. Monroe-County-Parent-Poll-March-2023Download
by Dan DeMarle | Apr 6, 2023 | Classroom, Parents/Guardians, Reading, Reading, School Districts, Teaching
There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how...
