This book should be required reading for any graduate teaching program - even more for administration programs. The book chronicles the life of standardized testing, and how it was directly influenced by multimillionaires and their foundations. In a nutshell, with all of the money invested and pumped into a plethora of policies, state, and federal program, we (the U.S.) still cannot figure out how to fix public education.
This is definitely a book worth reading twice. In the end, "education is a reflection of society."
"Schools by themselves - no matter how excellent - cannot cure the ills created by extreme social and economic inequality. They cannot create jobs or repair broken families or end neighborhood deterioration or stop crime. The achievement gap begins long before the first day of school."
