Huffington on K-12 education as a lottery and the demise of the middle class

From Sean Rose in the C-J on the occasion of Arianna Huffington's visit to Louisville to promote her most recent book...

The middle class is rapidly shrinking, and one author thinks that's putting America on the road to becoming a Third World country...

Huffington said all Third World countries have extreme wealth and poverty. What makes America different is a vibrant middle class, but a lack of job growth is threatening its existence....

The problems contributing to this class decline existed before the recession and begin with education, Huffington said.

She compared public education to lotteries, saying students' success depends largely on what school they attend...

“This system works great for adults and terrible for children,” Huffington said....