America's schools are dotted with sto-ries of progress. In December your correspondent watched a class of seven-year-olds on Chicago's poor West Side. As Mauricia Dantes, a consultant for ibm before she retrained as a teacher, led the pupils in a discussion about the deafand-blind author Helen Keller, one small girl declared: "I feel like I'm in college." One day, thanks to Ms Dantes and other teachers, she may be.
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