Hooked on Phonies

[teacher gal]

Good reporting at Mother Jones on one tiny slice of the profiteering that takes place in the name of "failing public schools".

As a boy growing up in a small town in southeast Texas in the 1950s, Randy Best couldn't read. The hours his mother, a high school teacher, spent tutoring him barely made a difference. At the time, he didn't realize he was dyslexic, and he got through school by dint of hard work. "Either I was going to give up or I was going to find some way to compensate," Best, now 65, recalls. He eventually discovered that he had a talent for reading the market. By the time he was 27, he'd sold off the class-ring company he'd founded for $12 million, launching a career as one of the Lone Star State's most prolific and politically connected entrepreneurs.

Read the entire article here:
http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/09/exit-strategy-hooked-on-phonies.html

[teacher gal]

1. Drifting

to the bottom. Hope someone will help me out here. Thanks to whoever gave the rec.