Equality of Opportunity from Education

After watching Geoffrey Canada on the Colbert Report, I decided to take a look at the education program he's part of in Brooklyn. It seems like the right mindset - help individuals in low income families to help themselves by giving them a high quality education from birth through college. If this was a nationwide program that helped all of the nation's poor, this would obviate the need for an extensive welfare system, saving us countless taxpayer dollars. Unlike welfare, education is a long term fix, setting up new generations with stability who can pass on that stability to the next generation, and so on and so forth.

Here's the Harlem Children's Zone website. Not sure of the exact construct of the program, but the basic principles Mr. Canada discussed on the Report were solid.