California Dreaming: Reforming Mathematics Education by Suzanne M. Wilson Yale University Press, 2003, $29.95; 320 pages. Reviewed...

Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools by Peter Schrag

Public Education as a Business: Real Costs and Accountability by Myron Lieberman & Charlene K. Haar

Common Sense School Reform by Frederick M. Hess (Palgrave Macmillan). Common sense suggests that educators, like...

Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left By Susan Braudy Knopf, 2003, $27.95;...

Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity By Samuel P. Huntington

Battling Corruption in America's Public Schools, by Lydia G. Segal (Northeastern). This worthy book...

Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future By Michael Barone

Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch

The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane