Berkley Center

We need to recognize that the most critical domestic problem in the United States today is the widening of the educational gap between the children of the haves and those of the have-nots. We live in a society where your zip code determines your…

Perhaps the closest thing to a universally shared American value is our belief in social mobility. The American Dream is impossible without the availability of the skills required to succeed in life – derived almost entirely from education. A lack…

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
- Norman Vincent Peale