A Promising Story
There’s an article in the Washington Post on a Harlem private school program (and then some) that seems to be having good results with children from problematic backgrounds – it’s encouraging to read, and I pray that stuff like this takes off.
I have to wonder, though, whether it might be defeating the purpose for the Department of Education to get involved in “spreading the model,” so to speak, since (as a conservative) I have to wonder whether the fact that this program ISN’T a bureaucratic, publically funded institution is part of the reason for its success in the first place (although the article itself is careful to say that the full success of the program is yet to be gauged).