A few pieces to recommend on education:

Nick Cheolas says: “Affirmative action allows those responsible for the failures of urban education to shirk accountability with a simple, ineffective solution…”Deneen Moore says : “In Harlem, at last, there is now a ray of hope…”

And the blogosphere’s own Mark Tapscott pointed me toward an excellent editorial in the D.C. Examiner, asking: Who will speak the truth about D.C. schools?