[OESY]

Ms. Thernstrom is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the co-author, with Stephan Thernstrom, of "No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning."

'Segregation' and 'apartheid' run like a mantra through this book on public education today.

THE SHAME OF THE NATION, By Jonathan Kozol, (Crown, 404 pages, $25)

[dynachrome]

Gee, I'll bet he is foursquare for school vouchers. Not.

[Enchante]

The shame of our nation is that leftist lunatic fanatics from Kozol to Ronnie Earle to Cindy Sheehan to moveon.org, etc. etc. can get taken seriously at all. These lying vicious propagandists need to be exposed and discredited once and for all....

[Rodney King]

There is a better review of this book at National Review online today.