Before our family moved to Tucson in 1994, we lived in Racine, Wisconsin, for 12 years. Racine is just north of Kenosha and just south of Milwaukee, all on Lake Michigan, with picturesque shorelines dotted with lighthouses, piers and boats. All three cities were also known to be deeply racially segregated with pockets of severe poverty. In our first years in Racine I taught in a program for children with special needs from birth to age 3 and had many opportunities to visit the homes and neighborhoods where people lived in poverty......

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