The Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel – Alan J. Borsuk
“A federal judge a few days ago rejected a lawsuit that claimed that many students in Detroit were being denied their constitutional right to become literate. The judge was sympathetic. He called the academic record of Detroit schools “devastating.” But a right under the U.S. Constitution to be taught successfully to read and write? Nope. But what if we took it as an obligation, if not a constitutional requirement, to lead a lot more children to be literate so they make it to third grade able to read and to high school graduation with the skills needed for college and the workplace?” (more)