The Invisible Schools: Educating the Children of the Poor

The challenge of educating the children from our poorest homes and neighborhoods remains a task of the highest priority to America. Much progress was made in the twentieth century during the Kennedy-Johnson administrations as well as in work done in the George Bush and Barack Obama presidential years. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act provided vast new sums to our TITLE 1 schools, those with the most concentrated populations of poor students; the vitally important community college...