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Although the recommendations were implicitly focused on human rights and on improving opportunity for the worst-off populations, making that framework explicit helps us to acknowledge and clarify the values on which decisions for developing information systems are made.
As a spur to improvements in the system, given the slow pace of top-down efforts at reform, it seems worth trying out in different ways, but it shouldn't be considered a cure-all, especially for the worst-off schools.
And because single-mean measures of population health mask inequalities among the best-off and worst-off, the health of vulnerable populations is not effectively documented and acknowledged.
But the essence of the problem is the condition of the worst-off blacks in the urban ghetto.
It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up "straightening out," as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups.