Wainer, Howard

Questions what is wrong with our education system and analyzes almost every aspect of conventional education policy including college rankings, admissions, aptitude tests. Challenges what policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. Includes an index, tables, and diagrams.

Presents an examination of the history of the use of visual graphs in the presentation of information, from its eighteenth century origins in art, logic, to the graphic explosion of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where communication shifted from words to pictures.