It takes a village to raise a child

I applaud Professors Power and Richmond for their valid descriptions of the dead ends America continues to travel in its search for equality of educational opportunity. Professor Power warns of the futility of calls for an equal opportunity to learn in American while generally "ignoring the 'savage inequalities' [in school funding] so vividly portrayed by Jonathan Kozol" (p. 340). Professor Richmond suggests we are not going to solve this pathological inequality by throwing yet another educational program at it. Forced busing can "achieve numerical integration only to become housing for a divided student population (p. 345)." Schools of choice (e.g., Magnet schools) can end by denying many students admission to what was once their neighborhood school. "The schools are saved; the lost children remain lost" (p. 344).