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.
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.