Billy Shore

Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

If you want to know what hunger looks like in America today, listen to what the nation's teachers are telling us.

Zaid Jilani

Communications and Outreach Coordinator, United Republic

Following the outcry over the group pushing "Stand Your Ground" laws, at least 15 major corporations, foundations, and other organizations have decided to end their funding commitments to ALEC.

Alan Singer

Social studies educator, Hofstra University

Pearson is tilting the coverage of U.S. history to win approval by school boards in red states, and in doing this, allowing the most conservative school boards in the nation to determine what gets taught in New York State schools.

Jim Hutchins

Neuroscientist and author; Professor, Weber State University

There is still some scientific disagreement about man-caused climate change, this much is true. But there is no debate or controversy whatsoever on evolution; it's generally accepted science in broad terms.

Dr. Stephen Schoonmaker

President, College of the Ouachitas in Malvern, Ark.

Despite these challenges don't start writing rural America's epitaph quite yet. New opportunities are emerging in a rural America primed by resurgences in rural higher education.

Jeff Biggers

Author of 'State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream'

The questions beg: How much lower and blatantly racist will Tucson school officials go? Will Tucson community leaders, like Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, stand by and watch the reckless measures of "demagogic extremists"?

Mark Horvath

Founder, Invisible People

This week I was visiting Northwest Arkansas for The Farm's Harvest Festival and my friend Mike Rusch connected me with Marian Riner, Families in Trans...

Maureen Costello

Director, Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project

From the standpoint of history, education and democracy, Mike Huckabee's new cartoon series is an appalling product. Make no mistake, this isn't education; it's kiddie-propaganda.