Review of Diane Ravitch Book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.” New York, NY: Basic Books.

Abstract The book has eleven chapters that can be clustered into three parts. The first part traces historical accounts of educational reforms in America and their impacts. The second part illuminates some of the major success stories and innovations American education system. The part of the book sheds light on corporatization of education and the ever growing dominance to business and corporate worlds in American education system. This part also gives some perspectives on some of lessons that need to be learned from the past experiments and reforms in American education system.