A high percentage of children have parents without health insurance. Then the earache becomes a hearing impairment, which becomes a learning impairment, which becomes a reading impairment. The only way you can close the gap is not teaching the high-scoring kids anything. If we could reduce the number of overall fatalities by even one percent, that would be a significant saving of lives. The probability that the Iowa economy will experience growth rates similar to those enjoyed over the past four years is near zero.
Some parents are desperate.
A student wouldn't walk into a professor's office asking a question using bad English. I don't think you can learn writing from a book, except from reading literature.