Closing early learning gaps: Melanie Johnson shares her mission

Closing early learning gaps: Melanie Johnson shares her mission

Growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, which ranked among one of the lowest-performing states in the country for education, Dr. Melanie Johnson learned early that systems alone are not enough to educate children.  It takes a village, as Johnson herself was once raised in. “There were micro systems on our street, neighbors and teachers who told on you when you didn’t turn in your homework because that’s the beauty of small towns,” she told the Defender…