Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
This book describes Diane Ravitch’s disillusionment with efforts to introduce and expand testing and school choice as panaceas to the problems of public school education in the United States.
Reviews: Steve Sailer on VDARE (he agrees with Ravitch that testing and choice are overhyped, but disagrees with her claim that they are harmful), Chester Finn in Forbes (he agrees about the hype but thinks that the problem is that the agenda of testing and choice is not sufficiently radical), Neal McCluskey in School Reform News (mentioned also in this blog post), Andrew Coulson on the Cato@Liberty blog.
