When I was growing up, my parents took a “divide and conquer” approach to helping me with homework. Mom helped with English and History, Dad helped with Math and Science. This worked rather well for a while, but eventually Mom didn’t know how to write a literary analysis and Dad

One important misconception that teachers must address is the notion that children in poverty do not come from loving homes. It is easy, sometimes, to fall into a savior-complex where we believe it is our responsibility to save children from the horrors of their homelife. However, this way of thinking

Whether it is an abundance of pride and a lack of humility, or whether it’s just plain negligence and abuse, our children are constantly being placed in the position to keep food insecurities at home a secret. Either way, there is a generation’s old stigma that has been conceived in