Upper Upper West Side

Today and tomorrow at Columbia University: “The Education Achievement Gap: Who’s Affected, and How Much.”

Interesting conference: add up welfare, Medicaid, lost tax revenue, jails, et al, and exactly how much money could government save if we closed the Gap?

Of course, there’s the usual implication – we need to spend more. A lot more. Too bad they didn’t break off a piece of this Kit-Kat bar. Maybe we need to begin with the yo-yos.

– Guest blogger Goldstein Gone Wild