“Americans are still the greatest innovators in the world; we are the worst implementers,” she said.
But Wisconsin needs to keep working for better education systems, she said. African-American students make up a minority of students in Wisconsin, but their success affects us all, she said.
“It’s sometimes hard to get a largely white state to pay attention to the needs of small minority,” she said. “We have to develop a perspective that lets us see what I like to call ‘the least of these’ as our kids.
Locally, Madison has long tolerated disastrous reading results.