The US has an education problem. Virginia has the solution

Last month, I had the honor of joining a fourth-grade class on their field trip to Fort Monroe — to the very spot where more than 400 years ago the first enslaved Africans touched American soil. We focused on the transformation and contradiction that Fort Monroe represents — as the origin of the evils of slavery in the US and then as a refuge for freedom during the Civil War. We talked honestly about Virginia's and America's history — the good and the bad.