Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools

While in theory we believe in equality, in practice, American children start out with wildly different opportunities depending on the families into which they happen to be born, and we do little to remedy those inequalities. And in recent years, we have become increasingly polarized, seeing “those people” who disagree with us as an undefined group,

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.

Mary didn’t teach civics or current events. She taught writing. Advanced Placement English, to be precise.

This skewed demography is only now being corrected as nonprofessionals migrate to join families, as economic and/or political refugees; as workers in the transportation, lodging, and other trades; and as small businessmen (running shops, motels, and so on). Ignoring these facts of South Asian America, D’Souza asks, “why can’t an African American be

that cuts from private to public schools and through time.