It's the poverty, stupid, when it comes to education.
Poverty and transience especially are vastly more important indicators of whether a child does well in school than anything going on in an individual school.
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If we need to generate "good jobs," it is important to define what a "good job" is.
We all know it, of course, and those "good jobs" were there largely because of unions or the possibility of unionization.
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Could Detroit be Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation's Waterloo?
And no, I didn't bother to watch the 60 Minutes puff piece on ol' Eli, either.
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