But they have better weather.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

If you have not 'already guessed, the District of Columbia's public institutions have a marked similarity to those of the Third World. More than two-thirds of the city's fourth-graders and more than half of its eighth-graders have "below basic" reading ability, according to a recent report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The district's scores were worse than...