Review!

This week's Washington Post Magazine features their semi-annual Education Review. The cover story relates the experience of African American students in Prince Edward County, Virginia, who were denied an education for several years in the 1960s when the county closed all its public schools as an act of massive resistance to Brown vs. Board of Education. Important reminder of how little space and time there really is between today and a shameful history of de jure segregation that denied opportunities to generations of African Americans. On a positive note, Jay Mathews tells how Montgomery County, Maryland, is using all day kindergarten to help close achievement gaps for disadvantaged youngsters early.