Building Superheroes: Why Every Child Deserves a Chance

The little boy in my classroom colored his superhero bright green and then asked for a
brown crayon to make the skin "like mine." It should've been a simple request, but my heart sank—we didn't have one.

That moment was my wake-up call to the opportunity gap, a stark betrayal of the American promise that anyone can succeed. Zip code shouldn't demand des…