"... if the imagination expended in devices to restrict high-quality education to a privileged few - coaches, consultants, ghost writers for college application essays, even (God save the mark) test prep courses for a kindergarten entrance exam - were devoted instead to repairing our dilapidated system of public education, fifteen-year-olds in the United States might not rank fifteenth out of twenty-nine OECD countries in reading literacy, twenty-first out of thirty in scientific literacy, and twenty-fifth out of thirty in mathematics literacy." - from Racecraft by Karen Fields & Barbara Fields