What I have come to understand is that while we scurry to find new ways to meet AYP, get our students over the hump, and keep our schools out of the editorial pages, there is a quiet epidemic of illiteracy spreading in our urban schools. The Education Trust (while not completely perfect) is trying to address the issue through their programs and protocols. They seek to shift the paradigm of teachers and schools, not throw money at the urban schools and hope that a miracle happens.