Title: THE EDUCATION ENIGMA
Description: A quick tour of the bad ideas in American public schools. An analysis of why the schools are often mediocre. And some ideas about how we can improve. A quick, lively book, very intelligent, very decisive. 
Bruce Deitrick Price has more than 125 articles on the internet. This book collects the 50 best  excerpts.
Only 136 pages, so this is an excellent introduction for the busy executive, etc.