The most significant challenge to American education over the next decade is going to lie in the schools of the urban slums and rural areas of the nation. The task will be to lift the level of education in these schools to a point at least comparable with the schoolt of the rest of the nation. Our country has always been committed to what James Russell Lowell called "Education common to all." The public school has been the primary equalizer of opportunitythe place where children of immigrants and farm families acquired the stimulus and the skills they needed to work their way up from poverty. But the ideal of a common basic education has been breaking down. Certain communities. at great financial sacrifice. have developed superior school systems.
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