If you want to see an educational revolution, visit Phoenix, Arizona.
I just got back from a trip to Phoenix to attend a conference put on by the Great Hearts charter schools. Great Hearts is a system of sixteen classical charter schools in Arizona, which is now beginning to open schools in Texas as well, and, eventually, several other states.
While the public school establishment is shifting
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