by Caroline Cataldo | Aug 26, 2014 | Demographics
WASHINGTON – Discrimination today involves class distinctions that hold people back as much as racial issues, according to two leaders of the 1964 Freedom Summer. The solution, they say, is education. Today’s prejudice comes in a more “pernicious” form, said Larry...
by Caroline Cataldo | Aug 20, 2014 | Education, National Security
WASHINGTON— Linh Narum knows what it means to be a part of a military family. Her father served in the Air Force for 27 years and she and her husband, an Air Force communications officer, have two sons of their own. Like most military families, the Linh and Col. Jerry...
by Caroline Cataldo | Aug 11, 2014 | Education
WASHINGTON— About two dozen high school students from 23 countries donned their whit lab coats, strapped on their blue and red satchels, and took final looks at their science books, Thursday, for what has been called “the brain Olympics.” “The ultimate goal of all of...
by Caroline Cataldo | Jul 31, 2014 | Demographics, Living, Politics
WASHINGTON – More than 100 federal contract workers and their families protested in front of Union Station Tuesday, telling morning commuters, Congress and the president they want the right to unionize. The protestors were low- wage workers hired by private...
