Elite Manhattan School Defies Old Preppy Cartel: Amity Shlaes

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Along with the victory of “The King’s Speech” over “The Social Network” at the Oscars, the chatter among well-to-do New York parents is the plan for Avenues: The World School on Manhattan’s West Side.

Avenues, a for-profit K-12 institution, won’t open until 2012, but its plan captures the Zeitgeist so well it could have been scripted by Aaron Sorkin.