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Offers a comprehensive overview of educational change and how it has evolved throughout the twentieth century, with practical suggestions for how it can be improved in terms of teachers, students, principals, families, and communities at the local, regional, and national levels.

Discusses the key players in America's quest for education reform, examining the roles and ideas of the White House, teachers' unions, public school parents, Ivy League idealists, civil rights activists, and other individuals, and offers advice based on solutions from both sides.

Diane Ravitch, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, discusses the state of American public schools and argues against the claim that our public school system is broken and should be privatized.

Analyzes four major challenges the United States is facing--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and excessive energy consumption--and explains why these problems need to be corrected now in order to sustain the American dream and protect America's place as a world power in the future.

Offers teachers and other school personnel an overview of education advocacy, explaining what the role of an education advocate is, how they can change the education system, how to get started, and what the best advocacy strategies are.

Essays examine major controversies in education such as the use of tests, tuition tax credits, desegration and the quality of American schools.

Presents a short study on the duties and responsibilities of the Secretary of Education, and describes the first secretary, Shirley Hufstedler during the Carter administration, the programs the department oversees, protecting students' rights, and more.

America has been steadily sliding in global education rankings for decades.

"In many public schools, students are spending up to 28 percent of instructional time on testing and test prep.

"Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker were ready to reform our failing schools.