Having read the first 100 pages, I judge this book to be a worthy read. As a 57-year-old Caucasian Southern female Democrat, I am enjoying the inside look at situations I just hadn't known about or considered before. The business of so many young black males now ineligible to vote because of their prison records: that's tragic. That bit about being called "articulate": that's a hoot.
Having just gotten Ellen's e-mail about having to cancel such splendid efforts as the Fall Writing Conference, this book's title is ironic. The budget crisis is crashing our party in a whole 'nother way. I'm sad but hopeful that things will get better for WIN and others. The need for improved literacy instruction certainly won't go away, but we'll have to conjure up other ways to assist schools.
Heads up and chins high,
Amy
