Want Better Schools?

Headed out to earn today. Please let me leave you with this interesting piece in The Atlantic. Nick Hanauer wrote it. He's an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, the founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures.

Here’s a rich person who decided, after years of joining the Waltons in their views toward education, changed his views. Take a look at the epiphany:

For all the genuine flaws of the American education system, the nation still has many high-achieving public-school districts. Nearly all of them are united by a thriving community of economically secure middle-class families with sufficient political power to demand great schools, the time and resources to participate in those schools, and the tax money to amply fund them. In short, great public schools are the product of a thriving middle class, not the other way around. Pay people enough to afford dignified middle-class lives, and high-quality public schools will follow. But allow economic inequality to grow, and educational inequality will inevitably grow with it.

Enjoy the entire article. Back tomorrow if I last.