Wilson speaks of transporting city folk into the suburbs to work. It would save money in the welfare system, because the unemployed would now be working. It creates jobs for the public-works people, and it saves the time and effort of shipping workers in and out of the city each day. If the government is going to be supporting people, they should not be too picky about where they are living. Yeah, they might have to leave their friends and neighbors behind, but they will have jobs.
Standardized testing is the worst thing a government can do to students.
Teachers need to be evaluated yearly to ensure that they are constructive and useful for all their students. Distribution of federal funding to schools needs to be directly proportionate to the number of students the school supports. As of now they are very disproportionately distributed. Students will do better in schools, not if they are required to pass a certain standardized test, but if they are given the proper education, with caring and competent teachers, and materials to learn on and from.