[AtomicLabMonkey]

Skip Barber and Bondurant seem to be regarded as two of the best racing schools to attend; I went to the Barber 3-day racing school at Laguna a few years ago. The first day is a lot of classroom time (which is good, don't get me wrong - you don't just want to go jump out on the track at full-tilt-boogie in one of those formula cars if you're a beginner), some autocross around the parking lot in the formula cars to get used to them, and some drills on the track to focus on different aspects of corners. One of the best is the threshold braking drill; they have you line up before T11 and brake right on the threshold of tire lockup while an instructor stands on the track, watches your technique and gives you feedback. IIRC the second day doesn't have much classroom time, it's mostly on the track. You do some laps in the Neons (f4st4r!) with an instructor in the car giving you feedback, and later in the day you're out in the formula cars taking laps. They have instructors stand at each corner station around the track and watch what you're doing. The third day is all on the track, mostly continuous lapping IIRC.

All in all the school is fairly regimented; while you're still learning the car they have max-RPM limits in sessions, things like that - BUT, if you're a beginner I think the regimented approach is definitely the way to go. It's no joke when you're cooking down the front stretch at 100+ mph, if you do something wrong and get the car out of shape (like a beginner with no limits put on them would likely do) you're gonna be hurting pretty bad... not to mention thousands of dollars in debt for cracking up one of their cars.