CSPAN Tonight From Washington April 30, 2010
all those good intentions and all that money, so many of those intentions and good money has been wasted on central direction. it has not released the potential and the opportunity that the educational system is supposed to instill in every single child, no matter their background, no matter and what their parents do, no matter how much their parents have a bank fund. did you know that a child who is bright but poor will be overtaken in the classroom to pay a child who is less bright but wealthier by the age of seven? after that, the gap tends to widen. if you are a child born in the...