Jerald McNair

Schools across the country face enormous challenges nowadays. Keeping students and teachers safe from violence is the No. 1 priority. School shootings have become so common that we are no...

Six-year-old children should be learning to read, identify new words by matching letters to sounds, count to 100, and do basic addition and subtraction. But now we have a 6-year-old...

Starting the new year with legislation that prohibits anyone younger than 18 from having a social media account would benefit our youths. In Texas, that could become a reality. A...

Despite one's position on gun control, or their political party affiliation, I hope most will agree that anyone under 21 years of age should not have access to assault weapons...

It has been more than 20 years since the first state passed anti-bullying legislation. The Columbine High School massacre in 1999, in which 12 students and one teacher were fatally...

Recently I received mail that allowed me to renew my license remotely because of my safe driving record. It quickly reminded me of the laudable work of Illinois Secretary of...

Is it time for our youths to wear bulletproof vests? How many more mothers and fathers have to bury their children? In far too many communities, violence has been normalized....

How do we improve the lives of those in Generation Alpha during these unprecedented times? This cohort is the first generation to be born entirely in the 21st century, ranging...