I stumbled across something interesting while surfing the web this morning. Here's the substance of what I posted at NLT (with appropriate links there, since I can't figure out how to do that here):

"SDP’s Ken Blanchard calls our attention to this piece in THE ATLANTIC, describing the research and experience of British education professor James Tooley, who has looked at the performance of small private schools for the poorest of the poor in the developing world. A couple of snippets from the article: