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Dave,

Let me try and help:

1. We are adopting common core in order to spread mediocrity evenly. High achieving students only magnify the fact that many students are NOT high achieving. Can't have that. Hence, you close the "achievement gap" by suppressing high achievers.

2. We always need more of everything when it comes to education. We currently spend a higher proportion of GDP on education than any other developed country, in exchange for deplorable results. It is not, and will never be enough. Next: Prenatal education.

3. Head Start, like most feel-good programs, delivers results that have never been demonstrated to have long-term positive outcomes.

One final observation: I can't help but notice that one variable that is conveniently avoided when all the above is discussed is intelligence. Lower levels of intelligence correlate strongly with poverty, child abuse, poor nutrition, incarceration, infant mortality, etc. In addition, many of these social maladies tend to magically disappear when children are born into a two-parent family. I must have missed that part of the data analysis.