by Alia Wong | Sep 23, 2021 | uncategorized
On one of their first days back to school, a group of 3-year-olds at Little Sun People preschool in Brooklyn, New York, spent the morning learning how to write their names. On sheets of construction paper, they filled in the letters with brightly colored squares of...
by Alia Wong | Sep 3, 2021 | uncategorized
HONOLULU – Little did Joanna Lara know she was supposed to start thinking about child care before her son was even born. That the waitlists would be so endless and widespread. That the sticker shock would be so, well, shocking. By the...
by Alia Wong | Jun 3, 2021 | uncategorized
Like millions of women across the country, Shekira Bradwell found herself in a no-win situation last year. Bradwell, a Philadelphia-area mother, realized she could either return to work and pay for a babysitter, or abandon that job and care for her child, whose school...
by Alia Wong | Apr 10, 2019 | higher education, lifestyle, race, uncategorized
Every year at this time, headlines reveal once again what everyone already knows: America’s top institutions are selective—very. Harvard took a record-low 4.5 percent of the applicants to its 2023 class. Yale accepted 5.9 percent, the same as the...
by Alia Wong | Aug 10, 2016 | uncategorized
When President Jimmy Carter assumed office in 1977, he did something remarkable: He enrolled his 9-year-old daughter, Amy, in a predominantly black Washington, D.C., public school. The move was symbolic, a commitment the Democrat from Georgia had made even before...
by Alia Wong | Oct 27, 2014 | hawaii, language & culture, lifestyle, uncategorized
Read the original story: On a Sunday afternoon in early October, more than 700 people gathered at New Hope Leeward’s new Kapolei site — a dimmed, air-conditioned conference hall with rows of green banquet chairs, glowing television screens and an elevated stage bathed...
