percent additional content, but could subtract or change nothing. It was a missed opportunity to do it right. The toxicity of the Common Core standards persuaded me that it is fruitless to rely on national curriculum standards as a solution to education problems. Ravitch turned her attention to poverty and racial segregation as the main causes of low student achievement. Ravitch claims that the Common Core "was a rush job, and the final product ignored the needs of children with disabilities, English-language learners and those in the early grades". She says that the country needs "schools where all children have the same chance to learn. That doesn’t require national standards or national tests, which improve neither teaching nor learning, and do nothing to help poor children at racially segregated schools". Personal life She married Richard Ravitch (who later served as Lieutenant Governor of New York) in 1960 and they divorced in 1986. They have two sons, both of which were sent to private schools; a third son died of leukemia at the age of 2. Ravitch lives in Southold, New York. Her longtime companion is Mary Butz, a retired New York City public school principal who also administered a progressive principal-training program. She and Butz were married on December 12, 2012. Bibliography The Great School Wars: New York City, 1805-1973 (1974, reissued 1988, 2000) The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools (1978) Schools in Cities: Consensus and Conflict in American Educational History (1983) Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High Schools (1984) Challenges to the Humanities (1985) The Schools We Deserve (1985) The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945–1980 (1983) What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know: A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature (1989) The American Reader : Words That Moved a Nation (1990) National Standards in American Education: A Consumer's Guide (1995) New Schools for a New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education (1997) City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform (2000) Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children (2003) Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society (2003) The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (2003) Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers (2006) The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (2006) EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and