EDUCATION:
The Fall of the Standard-Bearers*

By Diane Ravitch

When it was founded in 1900, College Board had a profound influence on standards and curricula in American education. The board's influence has declined—and so has the quality of our public school system. Coincidence? By Diane Ravitch.

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The Koret Task Force book Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child, edited by John Chubb, is copublished by Rowman and Littlefield and the Hoover Institution. To order, call the National Book Network at 800.462.6420 or visit www.rowman.com.

Diane Ravitch is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.