From the article in The New Yorker, Ras Baraka is paraphrased as saying: "The Booker-Christie-Zuckerberg strategy was doomed, he said, since it included no sys

From the article in The New Yorker, Ras Baraka is paraphrased as saying: "The Booker-Christie-Zuckerberg strategy was doomed, he said, since it included no systemic assault on poverty." Poverty truly is this issue. Giving meal tickets to a bunch of proclaimed "reformers" is not the solution, as this case proves. Until every child has a warm place to sleep, food to eat, and at least one devoted adult to discipline and encourage them, children will be "left behind," to use the phrase of yesterday. I say this as someone who statistically excelled at teaching reading in the West and South sides of Chicago for nine years. I also say this as a member of the human race.