The Witness to Hunger project originated in Philadelphia in 2008 at the Dexel School of Public Health. The project turned to mothers and caregivers for their experience and expertise on dealing with hunger.
Reprint from Opportunity to Learn Campaign blog
Posted on: Friday February 24th, 2012
By Michael Holzman, Senior Research Consultant, The Schott Foundation for Public Education
A recent research report by Sean Reardon of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University has received much publicity, including a major article in the New York Times. Reardon found that the achievement gap between children of high- and low-income families is large and growing “and is now nearly twice as large as the black-white achievement gap. Fifty years ago, in contrast, the black-white gap was one and a half to two time as large as the income gap.”
When I first knew my surgeon husband, Dr. George Richardson in the earlier part of the 20th century, he spoke of the horror of caring for dying women with infected abdomens resulting from illegal, unprofessional, or downright filthy abortions or attempted abortions.
Young women, in the prime of their lives, or perhaps even teenagers, interrupted their pregnancies in some ghastly fashion either on their own, or in a back alley “abortion clinic”. They did not want a child whom they could not love, provide for, or parent adequately.
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