If selling [education] reform is like selling a car, you can’t get people to buy it by showing them a list of features. They have to get in the car and drive it. And right now, reform for many people in Newark is still a car on the lot with the doors closed.Derrell Bradford on the Newark community's distrust of outsiders and top-down educational initiatives in today's New York Times. Also see today's Wall St. Journal's discussion of how the "deep narrative in Newark is that government and decision-making is closed, no matter how hard Mr. Booker tries to change perceptions."
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