For 10 years, an extraordinary volunteer effort has taken aim at the troubling racial achievement gap in Madison, Wisconsin public schools. Leslie Huber reports on how the Schools of Hope Literacy Project has helped low-income minority students achieve.

When a mother and nutritionist looked inside the lunchroom at her children's school, she didn't like what she saw and decided to take action. Douglas J. Buege reports on Sara Tedeschi's struggle to put real food on the table in Madison, Wisconsin.

There’s a question that haunts many children who are victims of sexual abuse: why me? It holds echoes of feeling alone, singled out, and somehow to blame. Andrea Grazzini Walstrom explains how Wisconsin teenager Katie Jadin has created a new resource for helping children dealing with the effects of abuse.

To strengthen the capacities of North America's nonprofit child and family service organizations to serve and to advocate for children, families, and communities.

The Alliance for Children and Families provides services to nonprofit child and family serving and economic empowerment organizations.

The mission of this organization is to inform parents and grandparents about children's issues regarding health, rights, schooling, and education.

The Wisconsin Council on Children and Families, Inc. is a nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency. Headquartered in Madison and Milwaukee, the Council's mission is to promote the well-being of children and families in Wisconsin by advocating for effective and efficient health, education, and human service delivery systems. WCCF accomplishes this through educational conferences; on-going projects like W-2 Watch (Wisconsin's Welfare Reform), Wisconsin Budget Project, and Great Beginnings (our early childhood brain development initiative); and publications like the WisKids Count Data Books and Juvenile Justice Pipeline.

Based on the averaged freshman graduation rate, a new measure the U.S. Dept. of Education is using to assess more accurately and comprehensively how many students are graduating from high school, 11 states drastically overestimate the number of students who graduate from their high schools. The biggest offenders include North Carolina, New Mexico, Mississippi, Indiana and South Dakota, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education summary. New Jersey, North Dakota and Wisconsin graduated the highest percentages of their high school students on time, while Washington, DC, South Carolina and Georgia had the lowest graduation rates.

As of year 2004, eight states and two large cities had at least 95 percent of children younger than age six enrolled in fully operational, population-based immunization registries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools has the full story.

One out of every five U.S. students is a recent immigrant or born to parents who are immigrants. The Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University describes in-depth how four very different schools -- in Greenbay, Wisconsin, Leadville, Colorado, Stamford, Connecticut and Columbus Junction, Iowa -- are changing their strategies and programs to meet their students' needs.