Hanna Duff is a School on Wheels volunteer tutor. She has been tutoring in a girls' group foster home for almost two years. This is one of her experiences.

I would like to tell you about Melissa. Excuse me. Queen Melissa. Her socks never match. She can guzzle...

California spends $216,081 for every youth incarcerated by the Department of Juvenile Justice and $7,571 for every student in the public school system.

We say that education matters, yet California is ranked number 47 among the states in per pupil spending on education. Further, according to "Quality Counts," a...

When our Marketing Consultant asked if I wanted to blog on the Huffington Post, my immediate response was no -- I'm a do-er, not a blogger. Then I thought, this would be good for our homeless students, those without a voice. It will make people aware of just how many...

I recently watched Al Sharpton on the Stephen Colbert show talk about how education is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. He discussed his collaboration with Newt Gingrich to promote education reforms. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich? That's an interesting coupling.

And I thought of all the...

I asked one of our team, Linda Huddle, what she would say about homeless students on a blog like this. So here's what she did say:

I love to walk my dog. One summer walking to a park near my home, I got to know a group of children who...

I read Arianna Huffington's post in September on the surge of homeless schoolchildren caused by the epidemic of home foreclosures. I guess this is the bright side of the recession - people are actually talking about homeless children. I'm not sure when the stereotypical picture of homelessness will...