Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

Movies portray men as tough guys.