Such boutique programs
offer highly personalized environments on a tiny scale, in a tech - enabled reinvention of the one -
room schoolhouse that eschews lockstep schedules and standard curricula for student - led learning.
Although his little four -
room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education
offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job: