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  About the blog name: "Gently Hew Stone" is a pun on the author's name. Michelangelo said that while carving his statue of David, he envisioned the finished statue inside the block of raw marble and just chiseled away the pieces that weren't part of it. Writing this blog is like that: I picture myself sitting before a hunk of raw possibilities with this keyboard as my chisel, and my labor of love is to reveal the beautiful ideas inside, to hone it to perfection by peeling away layers of ordinary thought and, ultimately, to bring to light the masterpieces just below the surface of it all.

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   Denis Hiller said

   September 10, 2008 at 12:27 am

   You & your readers may find this article about the muscle behind California’s 687 charter schools interesting: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/09/10/03wallace-7.h28.html

   Please let me know if you have any questions.

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   Peter Thies said

   January 29, 2009 at 8:12 pm

   I love your website. It’s an interesting insight into education and Mormonism.
   Have you ever heard of Elna Baker? http://www.elnabaker.com