I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass ThingsA Computer MagicA Writing Letters to Those You LoveA Finding out about FishA Marcia's Long Blonde BeautyA + !
So wrote Richard Brautigan in his poem "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain." In this spirit, growing disenchantment with U.S. public schools has produced a new alternative in virtually every state: small, mostly private "free" schools. Influenced by reformist manifestos like John Holt's How Children Fail, more than 800 of them are now run by...
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