Only 10 percent who enroll in college will graduate.
And how do we turn this around? How do we actually make a difference?
Census Bureau 2008 data show that a typical American household made less money that year than they did a decade ago.
We need to have some consistent, year-in/year-out efforts in this regard, so we're not waiting for the next headline to provoke a congressio...
the Childcare Development Block Grant that is Senator Dodd's child. That is the one that he has been champion of for so long.
The achievement gap is defined by age 3.
9.1 million children on a yearly average were getting assistance through the welfare system.
Today, it is 3.3 million children, 20 percent of children in poverty.
Yet we are only one of four countries left that I can identify in the world that doesn't provide that basic right, it seems to me.
I hope you are. Kit Bond, who is retiring this year, and Dan Coats, who sat on this committee and is running for the Senate again, were my p...
Every dollar we invest in early childhood development saves $10.