Quote of the Day, August 27, 2012
If American kids who aren’t poor are doing so well, maybe our problem isn’t bad teachers or inadequate school spending or indifferent parents or screen-besotted children. Maybe the problem is simply poverty — and the shameful fact that we have so much more of it than any comparable country. –excerpted from Daniel Akst’s opinion piece in Newsday, “Akst: Poverty, Not Bad Teachers, Is What Plagues Our Schools.”
