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At the end of her thorough and insightful review of our nation's failed attempts to reform American education, "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education," Diane Ravitch concludes: "If we want to improve schools and education we must first of all have a vision of what good education is. We should have goals that are worth striving for." And to move toward that vision (of the truly good school) we should attend, she insists, to quality. A quality curriculum, quality teaching, quality leadership and quality facilities are measured by standards that embody the vision of the truly good school. The "National Standards and …