Heading in the Right Direction: A Public School Guy's Experience in a Private School

In 1995, a group of courageous educators, parents and children came together to create a school with a simple - perhaps simplistic - assumption: that things that often alienate people from one another - ethnicity, skin color, socioeconomic class - might instead be tools that bring people together. Referred to for years as "a social experiment," New Roads School in Santa Monica, CA became an example of what is possible when people from different cultural groups come together to create a comm...