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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.
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.
But the essence of the problem is the condition of the worst-off blacks in the urban ghetto.
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.
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.