![The Cost of Success: How Letting Billionaires Shape ECE Harms Kids – and Democracy](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/blog_budgetcontrol1.jpg)
The Cost of Success: How Letting Billionaires Shape ECE Harms Kids – and Democracy
Read at Alternet (Alternet) Three weeks after New York City expanded its historic preschool initiative to three-year-olds, Richard Buery held forth on his signature achievement at the Puck Building, owned ...
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![Are We Hurting Kids at School?](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Are-We-Hurting-Kids-School-CNN.jpg)
Are We Hurting Kids at School?
Read at CNN (CNN) This fall, some 65,000 4-year-olds, backpacks hanging from their tiny frames, converged on the nation's largest public school district. In just a year, New ...
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![Poisoning America’s Children](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/flint-water-plant.jpg)
Poisoning America’s Children
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) This spring, communities across the nation have been celebrating Safe Kids Day. As the season began, a tweet arrived. “Every minute of every ...
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![A Memo to Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PI.jpg)
A Memo to Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Gates Foundation
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) I just finished reading your letter, What if? Thank you for the update on your work. The introductory paragraph is stirring: What if ...
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![New York’s Real Wealth Producers Hungry for Paid Family Leave](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blog-big-cryinbgbaby.jpg)
New York’s Real Wealth Producers Hungry for Paid Family Leave
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) What a winter of discontent for New York’s parents. Strep, sub-zero temps, tantrums. Then Andrew Cuomo declared there was “little” appetite for paid ...
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![Racing to the Top & Leaving Behind the Love of Learning](https://susanochshorn.com/wrd/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/blog-big-teacher-girls.jpg)
Racing to the Top & Leaving Behind the Love of Learning
Read at HuffPo (Huffington Post) As December loomed, Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top hit a snag. At a meeting of school superintendents, he took “white suburban moms” ...
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