Linda Perlstein '92 Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade (Henry Holt, 2007) In 2005, Perlstein, a former education writer for the Washington Post, was allowed an all-access pass for a year to Tyler Heights Elementary School in Annapolis, Md., some 32 miles from the White House, where the No-Child Left Behind education bill was signed into law. At the time, 70 percent of students at Tyler Heights lived at or below the poverty level. Her excellent book ventures beyond the statistics to study firsthand how the testing movement has affected students, teachers, and school administrators in Maryland and around the country. Perlstein uncovers the complexities of a modern elementary school as she chronicles the pressures on administrators to adopt business practices and hire consultants; the difficulties of learning faced by students with behavior problems; the changes in teaching children to read; the complications of standardization in regards to teaching immigrant and special education children; and the different education poor minority students receive compared to more affluent young people.