Second Short Quiz

[johnkarls]

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Each quarter, there is a five-week gap between meetings. During the extra week, we traditionally have a second short quiz.

1. Did our "Federal Magnet Schools" proposal of May 2009 make sense? (For details, please see our bulletin board - www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org.)

2. Are there any improvements that could be made?

3. Since President Obama and Secretary Duncan have failed to lead America to "The Promised Land" with regard to the plight of inner-city children, what can we do as ordinary citizens to make enough of our proposed "magnet schools" a reality that we "light the way"?

4. Do our studies last summer of Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea" (establishing schools in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan) and of David Bornstein's "How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas" challenge us to make enough of our proposed "magnet schools" a reality so that when, hopefully fewer than 40 years from now, there is a President who is willing to consider the child-genocide that is our American inner cities, the solution has been demonstrated and need only be taken to scale as only the federal government is capable of doing?