Given the super-heated atmosphere surrounding education politics, it's not surprising that people overreacted to Education Nation. And let's be honest: it wasn't objective journalism's finest hour.
It looks from the outside as though Denver Public Schools and A-Plus Denver, a citizen advocacy group, did a lot right when designing a protracted process to involve the community in overhauling schools in Far Northeast Denver.
When I read the Century Foundation's new report, "Housing Policy is School Policy," it seemed the study made a compelling argument in favor of socio-economic school integration.