In many school districts across the country summer vacation is getting into full swing. But for a lucky group of nearly 10,000 children in 87 cities and 27 states around the country, it's not just summer -- it's a Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer.
Posted 05.25.2011
In a country with a large achievement gap between students of color and their white peers, Freedom Schools across the country are working to help stud...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
African Americans have always seen education as a key to life and freedom. Frederick Douglass taught us that to educate a man is to "forever unfit him to be a slave."
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
Is your child learning to make a difference this summer? If she is enrolled in a Children's Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer program, you'l...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
Many Americans know very little about a group of schools that educated hundreds of thousands of black children and are their own key piece of black history.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
How many children in New Orleans and across our country are in harm's way because they fell through the cracks in our broken health care system?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011
The CDF Freedom Schools program seeks to empower children to make a difference in their families, their communities, their country and their world.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011
Since 1995, more than 70,000 children and families have been touched by the CDF Freedom Schools experience.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.17.2011
The Children's Defense Fund looks forward to working with the Obama Administration and the new Congress to enact policies that give all children the chance to live and learn and succeed in life.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011
There are 9.4 million uninsured children in America today and millions more are underinsured. Ensuring they have affordable access to timely health care is smart policy.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.07.2011