Here in Memphis, where we recently received a $90 million grant from the Gates Foundation, it would be nice JUST to graduate kids who could read on a middle sch

Here in Memphis, where we recently received a $90 million grant from the Gates Foundation, it would be nice JUST to graduate kids who could read on a middle school reading level. Forget sending them to college or trying to create some kind of creative class out of these kids, they don't even have the basics. THAT is the problem. We aren't even getting these kids a mediocre education where they can read, write, add, subtract, multiply, and divide.