In today’s world of public education, a child’s academic success and future prospects for happiness are determined by two narrow measures: their math and reading scores, says New York education advocate Reginald Richardson for Bloomfield Patch. Schools have been placed on state oversight lists and even shuttered [1] for not showing improvement in these two areas. As a result of this focus, our public schools have narrowed curriculum and directed their limited resources to support the singular goal of achieving higher scores…