YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY.

YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY. Juan Williams has an op-ed piece in the New York Times on the recent Supreme Court decision about school integration programs. Williams' take can be summarized by this paragraph:

And today the argument that school reform should provide equal opportunity for children, or prepare them to live in a pluralistic society, is spent. The winning argument is that better schools are needed for all children — black, white, brown and every other hue — in order to foster a competitive workforce in a global economy.

No longer are we to dream of a better future, together. Forget about equal opportunity! It is sufficient to grow better workers for the global economy, to compete against all those low-wage workers abroad! And all children have the same unmet needs for better schools. Sigh.

-- J. Goodrich