Connect for Kids

13.01.2006 For the fourth year in a row childhood poverty has risen and nearly 2,500 babies are born into poverty daily in the United States. Join Connect for Kids and poverty experts on January 18th for an online chat that will explore ways to improve the conditions of impoverished children and the challenges facing families in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

09.12.2005 Whether it's "Mix It Up at School Lunch Day", where students eat with someone they normally wouldn't, or "Mix It Up Group Dialogue", students are learning to accept one another regardless of race, class, gender or religion.

04.10.2005 Regardless of your politics, the global conflicts in which the U.S. are engaged amount to a teachable moment--a chance for children to learn more about their government and the wider world, says Home and School Institute founder Dorothy Rich.

14.09.2005 New Orleans was extraordinarily poor--and the poor disproportionately black--long before Hurricane Katrina ripped apart thousands of lives, says Jason DeParle. Connect for Kids asks the New York Times reporter to share his thoughts on the city's working poor and how welfare "reform" has affected their lives.

06.09.2005 Hundreds of U.S. teens across the country are organizing various 9-11-focused activities turning the fourth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center into a celebration of community caring. The events they've created are meant to support less fortunate groups in their communities and to show that young people care.