RealClearEd Today 05/28/2014: FLOTUS' Food Fight
Good morning. It's Wednesday May 28. This morning at RealClearEducation we have news, commentary, analysis, and reports from the top of the education world. First Lady Michelle Obama is getting her hands dirty in a political fight over healthy school lunches, pushing back against a GOP measure that would ease nutrition rules for some states. Also Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced several initiatives to improve and promote STEM education. Below you'll find just a few highlights of what's on our site this morning and, as always, there is also content organized into key issue areas on our sidebars.
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On this date in 1929, the Lucchese Boot Company was incorporated in San Antonio, Texas. Originally known as Lucchese Bros., the company was established by brothers Salvatore and Joseph Lucchese in 1883 after they immigrated from Italy. The brothers originally made cavalry boots but word of their unparalleled quality spread and the company grew - by the early part of the 20th Century the company already had an international reputation for excellence.
Eventually, in the latter part of the 20th Century, Lucchese was sold, moved to El Paso, and some of its boot lines are now made in Mexico. Today, Lucchese offers a variety of boot styles for men and women but its "Classics" line of western and roper boots is still made completely by hand in Texas and customized for each purchaser as desired. Whatever your taste in boots - style, leather, and color - you can find it somewhere in Lucchese's lines, but the Classics are the Cadillacs.
Lucchese has outfitted governors, presidents, prime ministers, and movie stars - John Wayne wrote Sam Lucchese in 1977 to thank him for a pair of boots saying, "I guess I know where my best Christmas present came from - Sam Lucchese." But most Lucchese-wearers are just people who want the most comfortable footwear available. For many, the purchase of a pair of Lucchese Classics is the footwear purchase of a lifetime and to be worn for decades. The Classics fit like no other footwear, shape to the foot even better than most boots, and are made with the most premium hides. It's like being allowed to wear slippers all day.
In education, we celebrate homogeny and fetishize scale. With more than 50 million students scale must, of course, be a consideration. But Lucchese reminds us that while big can be good, it should not obscure the value of small, customized, and unique.
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