THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. CAN YOU SAY THE LETTER O? AND WHAT SOUND DOES THE LETTER A MAKE UP? THESE TWO LITTLE ONES ARE NOT IN KINDERGARTEN JUST YET, BUT THEY ARE KINDERGARTEN READY. WHAT’S SEVEN TIMES ONE ...

Celebrating Black history helps kids learn that Black history is also American history. Parents can use art, music, and stories to share Black history and culture all year. Kids feel more connected ...

In the spring of 2018, Los Angeles two mothers, Kawanna Brown and Lisa Johnson, sparked a transformative movement. Frustrated by the racial isolation their children faced in private schools, they ...

Drowning is the #1 cause of death for kids ages 1-4 and 64% of Black kids can’t swim. Paulana Lamonier is a New York City native who tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to teach 30 Black kids to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the country, Black children and youth are twice as likely as the general population to die by drowning, according to the ...

Black kids are misdiagnosed and over-policed, making it easy to make excuses about why we can’t teach them and why they can’t be successful. (Photo: Nappy.co/alyssasieb) When a new Centers for Disease ...

Financial literacy is a vital skill for individuals of all ages and backgrounds, but it holds particular significance in the lives of Black children who may intend to go to college or pursue other ...

Our society has actively promoted two-parent families for decades, but today we’re in a particularly intense moment. We have books getting published like Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the ...

This year in Minnesota, lawmakers are trying to bring down the rate of Black children who are removed from their families and placed into foster care. The numbers haven't budged in nearly 30 years.

In plenty of schools around the country, students have been reading the same books for decades. Besides being just plain boring, we can’t ignore that most of these books, which are often considered ...