Kate Walsh of the National Council on Teacher Quality is tired of apologizing for her “narrow-minded” focus on academic goals as the way to “lift children out of poverty.” Education conferences now specialize in berating reformers for putting education — not “social justice” — first, she writes. (I don’t go to these conferences  myself.) Try suggesting to any audience these days that a school’s first obligation to young children is to teach them to read, write, and become num