Founder and President of the Children's Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman talks with Harvard University's Charles Ogletree about her work in ending the "cradle to prison pipeline".
She discusses the social and economic conditions that have created a system where millions of children are born without hope for a better future.
Bio
Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman was born in and grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of five children.
In 1963, after graduating from Yale Law School, Marian Wright Edelman worked first in New York for the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund, and then in Mississippi for the same organization. There, she became the first African American woman to practice law. During her time in Mississippi, she worked on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement, and she also helped get a Head Start program established in her community.
As part of the efforts of Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund on behalf of children, she has also advocated pregnancy prevention, child care funding, health care funding, prenatal care, parental responsibility for education in values, reducing the violent images presented to children, and selective gun control in the wake of school shootings.
Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law.
The
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (www.charleshamiltonhouston.org), named in honor of the visionary lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education, opened in September 2005, and focuses on a variety of issues relating to race and justice, and will sponsor research, hold conferences, and provide policy analysis.
Professor Ogletree's most recent book, co-edited with Professor Austin Sarat of Amherst College is From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and Death Penalty in America, and was published by New York University Press in May 2006. His historical memoir, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education (www.alldeliberatespeed.com), was published by W.W. Norton & Company in April 2004.
Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children learn from their environment and activities, and the adults around them act as teachers. In more complex societies, where there is more knowledge to be passed on, a more selective and efficient means of transmission—the school and teacher—becomes necessary. The content of formal education, its duration, and who receives it have varied widely from culture to culture and age to age, as has the philosophy of education. Some philosophers (e.g., John Locke) have seen individuals as blank slates onto which knowledge can be written. Others (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau) have seen the innate human state as desirable in itself and therefore to be tampered with as little as possible, a view often taken in alternative education. See alsobehaviourism; John Dewey; elementary education; higher education; kindergarten; lyceum movement; progressive education; public school; special education; teaching.
Race?
Nascar?
Humans have but one race, that is, other then athletics, human.
No black, white ,red, green, every vestiage of racism must be stamped out !
I am probably a racist - so this is my method..Its an always thing...
Families - yes!
All must be done to encourage this.
Man usually does figure out the best way of doing things.
The families should be talking with the non-families.
What an articulate women. Children are disadvantage by divorce. So many children regardless of race have their lives devastated by divorce. Parents are responsible to raise, emotionally secure, rational, compassionate children. I remember a survey that stated that 86% of men in prison in California came from single parent homes. We need to help these families stay together and help children especially young men become faithful, loving Fathers who are able to financially support their families.
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