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To: Lane3 who wrote (49868)	6/10/2004 1:31:51 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793990

Well, I've been countering my beginning points with yours. However, my best model of what can be done with urban ghetto education is the one I typed with Mike about, Central Park East in NYC. It's radically innovative in all the right directions, managed to work its way out from under the control of the NYC educational bureaucracy and put in teachers' hands, and turns out college graduates. As I put in my post to Mike, the last rate I knew anything about was 60% college going and more than a little of that was to very, very good schools. It's something that can be done. So when I say we know what to do about education in the ghetto, that's what I mean. Education is the one instrument I'm aware of that is a genuine leverage point. If we did it right, much of the wrongs that are reproduced in today's ghettos could be righted. But the will to do so is a political issue. And we all know about the political tides. In and out.