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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch, Basic Books. Autopsy of American public schools - confessions of a former true believer It is rare to find a book which would endeavor to both prescribe the ills of public education in America as well as to offer some possible solutions.

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

It is even rarer to find a true believer who has the courage and integrity to admit they were wrong. Diane Ravitch's masterful assessment of public education - at the end of a failed experiment with testing and choice called No Child Left Behind, of which she was a chief administrator as Assistant Secretary of Education under George W. Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen.