Today at TPM Cafe’s Book Club, Diane Ravitch makes the case against the modern education reform movement, as argued in her book Reign of Error:

In the early years of the twenty-first century, a bipartisan consensus arose about educational policy in the United States. Right and left, Democrats and Republicans, the leading members of our political class and our media elite seemed to agree: Public education is broken. Our students are not learning enough. Public schools are bad and getting worse. … There is only one problem with this narrative. It is wrong.