Teachers Offer the Wealthy an Escape from Poverty
Last night in President Obama's State of the Union address, he repeated a familiar refrain about the importance of teachers.
A great teacher can offer an escape from poverty to the child who dreams beyond his circumstance.
But it seems that it is those in power who are actually using teachers to escape from the realities of poverty these days.
President Obama offered as evidence a citation from a recent Harvard report:
We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom
