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Founder of 3R is rumpled, rugged James W. Kirchanski, 41, who looks and sometimes roars like the combat paratrooper he was in World War II. "I eat, sleep and breathe the idea of trying to develop a literate public," says Kirchanski. He dislikes "snob" private schools as much as he does progressive public ones. "I'm not trying to form a precious little Groton or Eton. This is for kids, rich and poor, who want to learn. And what do we teach that's so damned unusual? Only the classics-reading, writing and arithmetic, the tools a human...
Friendly Non-Persuasion. Born in Yugoslavia, Kirchanski grew up in West Virginia, where his father was a coal miner and his mother worked in a factory. At eleven he was forced to go to work because his father died. Still he managed to purr through Detroit's Wayne State University in 2½ years, then shot for a doctorate in political science at Berkeley. When he ran out of money, Kirchanski turned to schoolteaching, was disappointed at slow progress in "airy, friendly" classrooms. By contrast, when he taught convicts, Kirchanski made rapid progress. Public schools, he decided, were...
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