«I do not want to be sitting here 10 years from now at the age of 50 and the educational outcomes for
poor minority kids in this country are no better off then when I started in this job at 21.
The people running those organizations share a set of beliefs with Geoff: that the achievement gap
between poor minority kids and middle - class white kids is the most important civil rights issue of our time; that despite the disadvantages they face, every poor child can succeed; that in order to overcome those disadvantages, those kids often need an extraordinary amount of support; and that finding a way to get them that support is a shared national responsibility.
According to the podcast, there's a «problem we all live with... trying to
get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids.»