Graduation is always an exciting time, and it was made even more special this year with President Obama's commencement speech at Booker T. Washington High School as the national spotlight shone on Memphis.
Play is part of the fundamental learning process of childhood, and playing with other children helps a child develop the social skills necessary for living and working with others as they make their way through life.
Eugene Cashman, president and chief executive officer of The Urban Child Institute, has received the University of Tennessee College of Social Work's highest honor, recognizing him for his work to improve the lives of children in the Memphis area.
There is a flood in Memphis. Every year. It may not be as dramatic as the rising of the Mississippi River but it's much more serious in the long run. It's the stress flooding the lives of too many of our youngest children every day.
Not too long ago, the national and Memphis news turned their lens on pregnant teens in Memphis. Every year, one in six births in Shelby County is to a mother in her teens. Between 1991 and 2002, the teen birth rate for girls aged 15-19 had declined 27 percent in Tennessee.
Memphis is three years too late with the investments that give every child a fair start in life because public spending on education essentially ignores the first three years of a child’s life, and that’s the time when most of his brain is being developed.
