It would be really interesting if we could factor-identify the problem as one that&#x27;s fundamentally about racism. I don&#x27;t suspect that this is going all that well as a project.<p>What we find is that race matters less than whether or not the kids have the resources and interest to exploit schools properly. The factors behind that are profound - you might consider &quot;The Wire&quot; a dozens-of-hours essay on the nature of the problem and it ended without much conclusion.<p>My Mom taught poor kids. They were of many races, but they all had the same basic problems.