Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools.

And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.

Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on college-level test participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools had graduating Classes smaller than 100 students.

But in order to take advantage of these common-sense solutions, Americans will have to put aside their own attachment to the idea of smaller government and less regulation.

They give up the idea of smaller government and less regulation

Act Two is similar except that the yellow cube is smaller.