Gone but not forgotten: my time with the youngsters I met in Detroit.
It's been two years now since I traveled to Motor City on a work trip to help provide testing to the Detroit Public Schoolers ... and I think of them this MLK Day as education is such a key part of getting us all closer to "[his] dream" (and no, just because Obama is prez., the importance of driving toward that dream hasn't abated). After being with the group of students all morning as they struggled through the standardized test, several of them came up afterwards to invite me to their school's bball game that evening. The subtext was as if they wanted me to see something at which they excelled. I was sad that I couldn't stay (I had a more important appointment with a scantron machine that afternoon) ... and I only hope that many of them stayed on with their schooling.
Demand leadership in education, support organizations that provide opportunities for inner city kids and help make a difference so that these futures won't be at-risk and that these individuals won't themselves end up ... missed.
DETROIT's GRADUATION RATE OF 32%!!:
http://www.bridges4kids.org/articles/3-08/DetroitNews2-25-08.html
PROJECT ZERO:
http://www.pz.harvard.edu/index.cfm
PRIVATE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ONLY FOR THE AFFLUENT?:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280422614633564.html
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