Education Reform

Businesses know that listening to their customers is the key to their success, and this is also true for other types of organizations.  Parents are deeply concerned about the education their children receive, and school administrators and Board of Education members need to be actively listening to and working together with them as they advocate for the strongest-possible schools.

              This column ran in the Capital on 6/11/11

                   and the Maryland Gazette on 6/29/11

I stood at the top of the ravine, looking down in shock at the car smashed up below.  I’d had vivid dreams before I came to Uganda that I would die on this trip and my husband had even suggested that I cancel.  But because I felt called  to help some of the world’s neediest children, I had fought down my fears and gotten on the plane.