Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

"Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations."

"American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so?"