While I admit to knowing very little about the culture or history of horse racing, I know the shortest distance between start and finish is the inside lane. When I watch the Kentucky Derby or Belmont Stakes (as a television fan), I root for "my" horse to take the inside lane. As I watch the slower horses’ jockeys guide their horses to the outside lanes in hopes of winning, I think about how many times in education we must visit the outside lanes. And we don’t visit the outs