Schools: Classroom Communiqu

A child's riddle has it that the room no one can enter is the mushroom, but sometimes it seems just as hard for ordinary citizens to enter and observe the U.S. classroom. One man who does go to school, and reports what he sees in readable books, is David Mallery, 39. Long, a teacher of English, at Philadelphia's crack Germantown Friends School), Mallery now works for the Boston-based National Association of Independent Schools, which sends his reports to public and private schools, teachers, parents and school boards. The effect is to inspire them with the wide range of...

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