Don, Thank you for that. I will get the book and hope for the best. You say that it is factually based, which I do not doubt, although I see everything now through a skeptical lens and with a degree of jaundice. Facts only matter to rational people and false hope has been the downfall of many ambitious endeavors. The irresistible urge on the part of educators to always and compulsively look at the bright side and to convince themselves that chronic problems will somehow magically get fixed without a paradigm shift in thinking and attitudes (and without a fight to free children from coercion, both overt and covert) has rubbed off on a lot of people. I sincerely hope this is significantly different for some reason. The right must simultaneously be diminished in its influence and power for authentic progress long-term, which is the hardest part of the struggle. They will not just fade or wither away because they are anachronistic.