False Hope Is Worse Than Despair.

The White House, In Advancing The Agenda For A [school] "choice" Plan, Rests Its Faith On Market Mechanisms. What Reason Have The Black And Very Poor To Lend Their Credence To A Market System That Has Proved So Obdurate And So Resistant To Their Pleas At Every Turn?

President Obama Still Places Far Too Much Emphasis On Relentless Testing With Standardized Exams.

Unlike These Powerful Grown-ups, Children Have No Ideologies To Reinforce, No Superstructure Of Political Opinion To Promote, No Civic Equanimity Or Image To Defend, No Personal Reputation To Secure.

Children Are Not Simply Commodities To Be Herded Into Line And Trained For The Jobs That White People Who Live In Segregated Neighborhoods Have Available.

Like Grain In A Time Of Famine, The Immense Resources Which The Nation Does In Fact Possess Go Not To The Child In The Greatest Need But To The Children Of The Highest Bidder-the Child Of Parents Who, More Frequently Than Not, Have Also Enjoyed The Same Abundance When They Were Schoolchildren.