American Education has a long history of infatuation with fa... - Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

"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?"