"With this clearly and powerfully written book, reformers everywhere will have the evidence and arguments they need to push aside the myths standing in front of the schoolhouse door."
- FLORIDA GOVERNOR JEB BUSH

"This timely, plain-spoken, myth-demolishing book unmasks the self-interest, naivete and well-intended gullibility that leads Americans to embrace eighteen seductive assumptions about education that turn out to be false—and that block the promising reforms that our schools and children urgently need."
- CHESTER E. FINN JR., president, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation