While waiting in my doctor’s reception area, I was flipping through magazines and came across the October 18, 2010 issue of Newsweek. In this edition there was an interesting article on the public school system in Charlotte, North Carolina. In 2006, Peter Gorman took the job of Charlotte-Mecklenberg County’s Superintendent of Schools. This was a district where the system was in such disarray that one superior-court judge felt that four high schools were guilty of “academic....