I applaud Teach for America for the effort, but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s really that successful.  I graduated with more than a handful of people that went into TFA, and around 90% of them burned out hard after a couple years.  Most of them had no teacher training, and, really, no cultural context for understanding the cultures they got dropped into.  Inner city ghettos, Cajun Bayous, and Appalachian hollers are a different world than white-bread East Coast suburbia.<p>I think if you want to fix the disadvantaged areas of the country, you&#x27;ve got to reverse the brain-drain that&#x27;s sucking the best and brightest people out of these communities.  Decentralizing the economy would be a good first step.