It's the adults. And then more often than not, we blame them or their parents or their homes or their communities for their being in that condition. We rarely look at ourselves. The decibel level of our advocacy for them, even among the best intentioned of us, is seriously muted. We almost never speak out with united and concerted voices, taking aggressive action, insisting that our children, all of them God's children, be treated fairly.
All children can learn at high levels.
All means all . It has been characterized as one of the most comprehensive school change efforts in the United States. He has also seen to it that three times as many computers and twice as many books were made available to students. And school staff recruited 15,000 volunteers to help. The children responded.