I grabbed this book after I saw an interview with Ravitch on The Daily Show last month. She writes about No Child Left Behind and the resulting focus on testing in reading and math. Her argument is that this focus (and all of the educational fads that came along with it) are taking the focus off of creating a full curriculum. The tests are also being used as the only measure of student, teach, and school success when they were only created to evaluate a single student skill. She looks at fascinating cases in San Diego and New York.

A fascinating read and an important one in this time of blaming teachers' unions for all of the problems in education.