This week, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is doing something that millions of people have done before – he is living on a food stamp budget. Of course, he’s only living on it for one week, but it’s the thought that counts. And the thought...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Urban Education Policy.
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This week, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is doing something that millions of people have done before – he is living on a food stamp budget. Of course, he’s only living on it for one week, but it’s the thought that counts. And the thought...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Copyright © 2005 Alexandra Lee. Licensed under Creative Commons. When it comes to reproductive rights in this country, we dodged a bullet Tuesday. It’s bad enough that many states and their legislators will continue to press for increasingly restr...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned from their positions rather than approve the provision of an absentee ballot to convicted murderer Michael Woodma...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
The Dorr Rebellion. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Just this month, several members of the Cranston Board of Canvassers resigned from their positions rather than approve the provision of an absentee ballot to convicted murderer Michael Woodma...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Image obtained from Wikipedia. As is traditional in an election year, most of the normal legislative agenda has been suspended in favor of campaigns and partisan posturing. The GOP is largely running on the economy, which is sure to be a winning is...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
It’s the first day of kindergarten. Aren’t you cute? You, five years old, walk out the door to school, maybe for the first time – excited, impatient, catatonic or crying hysterically. You’ve walked past your neighborhood school hundreds of ti...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
A recent report by the Population Division of the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs has received a great deal of attention in recent days for its recommendations regarding the aging of the global population. This trend is partly the re...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
A recent report by the Population Division of the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs has received a great deal of attention in recent days for its recommendations regarding the aging of the global population. This trend is partly the re...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Born in 1930, John Jay Hooker (D) is a successful businessman, a frequent litigant and one-time political candidate. In the late 1990s and again this year, Hooker has filed a case with the Tennessee Supreme Court contending that the current process o...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
Born in 1930, John Jay Hooker (D) is a successful businessman, a frequent litigant and one-time political candidate. In the late 1990s and again this year, Hooker has filed a case with the Tennessee Supreme Court contending that the current process o...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
The message from GED-prep organizations, states, and even the GED Testing Service is the same: take the test now. For those preparing for the GED, there are just a couple of years left before 2014, when a major redesign, including a shift to exclusiv...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern
The message from GED-prep organizations, states, and even the GED Testing Service is the same: take the test now. For those preparing for the GED, there are just a couple of years left before 2014, when a major redesign, including a shift to exclusiv...
Alexis Stern
Alexis Stern