March 2 Washington Post op ed piece.

Matt Miller is one “third way” writer who absolutely has not, ever to my knowledge (though I’ve not been reading him for awhile), dealt honestly and openly with the implications of severe economic segregation for bringing about positive educational change.  There is simply no evidence I am aware of that any of the solutions he proposes have even a ghost of a chance of getting our kids attending high poverty schools to achievement levels broadly attained in Finland, Singapore, and South Korea.  These societies truly are committed to educating all their kids—and they simply refuse to permit social conditions that they know make that task utterly hopeless to exist in their societies.  When Matt Miller writes as passionately about that and what we should do about it as he is eager to lecture everyone else in these debates on why they are wrong, I’ll pay more attention to him.