Here are two recent articles that I found interesting, and thought you might like to read over this long weekend:
Schooled
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
by Dale Russakoff May 19, 2014
The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_russakoff?currentPage=all
Who Gets to Graduate?
By PAUL TOUGH MAY 15, 2014
New York Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0