By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
On a trip to Alabama in 2004, former Massachusetts state budget director Ed Moscovitch observed a revolutionary approach to help children from poor homes learn to read by providing their teachers with data, coaching and sustained support. Soon after, Moscovitch sat...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, when California created Cesar Chavez Day to honor the labor activist and founder of United Farm Workers of America, then-governor Gray Davis asked social policy advisers Carlos and Linda LeGerrette for ideas for activities. The San Diego natives had worked...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Lucy Young was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, she was a pastor’s wife in Queens, N.Y., and terrified of death since her two children were just 9 and 10 years old. The Chinese-American, who was more comfortable speaking Chinese than English, was afraid to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Decades after her father physically and sexually abused her, Wynona Ward received a call from her sister with horrific news. Ward’s 7-year-old niece had been abused by Ward’s brother. He was charged with sexual assault. “This has to stop,” Ward thought – not just for...
