Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

Inadequate education is a problem in a country where wealth depends on success in the service/knowledge economy. In most of this country’s minority-dominated communities—inner cities, barrios, poor rural areas, and Indian reservations—only about half of today’s ninth graders will graduate from high school.

For all the smug assessments of how poor White Southerners vote against their own interests and hate indiscriminately, how rare it is that we attend to their other stories.