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Matthew Ladner, of steak dinner fame, weighs-in in the Philly Inquirer about what the Oprah hype all means. You can disagree with Ladner’s advocacy of vouchers but he nails the macro-problem here:

Our education system has become tragically divorced from the engine of progress that drives the rest of our economy at the behest of a narrow set of self-interested parties who guard a failed status quo.

But Americans, for all of our differences, universally share a commitment to equality of opportunity, and will not continue to tolerate a school system that looks as though it was designed to serve only the privileged.