The great French novelist Victor Hugo said that “he who opens a school door, closes a prison.” President John F. Kennedy linked our development as a nation to our progress in education, remarking that the “human mind is our [most] fundamental resource.”
Although the importance of education is clear, our education system is rife with inequality and continues to fail a large proportion of our students. On the whole, typical children in affluent districts fare well. Children in high-poverty districts fare much worse, performing on par with the literacy rates of students in developing countries. In math, our African-American and Hispanic children, who make up close to 40 percent of our study body, on average, are performing around the 20th and 25th percentile respectively in national assessments. Failure to address these deficits will exponentially reify the divide between two socioeconomic Americas, threatening our domestic tranquility and jeopardizing our leadership role in the global community.
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