There's still a reasonable number of public schools in middle class areas in the US that offer good educations. The interesting population is the eng/science/ma

There's still a reasonable number of public schools in middle class areas in the US that offer good educations. The interesting population is the eng/science/math majors at good colleges who didn't go to such great public or private high schools, how did they get leapfrogged? I remember some of my friends going to community college classes while in high school, math camps, programming comps, stuff like that. Those program offerings are really important, they're like a parallel education track to public K-12. Now there's Khan Academy, the MIT and Stanford courses online, all kinds of resources, but you have to get motivated/gifted together with like minded ones.