David L. Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics and Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives.
While the public has been napping, the American university has been busily reinventing itself.
The Color of School Reform represents the kind of scholarship that by rights should influence the design of smart policy.
The scene with which The Good Citizen opens could have been lifted straight from a Norman Rockwell painting.


