Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2004
Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, is the author of numerous books, includingThe Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn(Knopf, 2003),Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform(Simon & Schuster, 2001), andNational Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide(Brookings, 1995).