I attended Milwaukee Public Schools for my entire pre-university educational experience. The schools I attended were a healthy mixture of racial, religious, socio-economic and educational styles. As a contrast to my urban school experience in Milwaukee, some of my most vivid memories were of attending a one-room schoolhouse 2 miles down the road from my grandparent?s farm, I can still hear and see the teacher stepping onto the steps of the wooden structure and ringing a hand bell to let us kn...