The Indignant Teacher is passionate about education. She lives in Boston. She wants better schools, not more tests and punishments.
Here she reviews Reign of Error.
She writes that the crucial sentence in the book is this one:
The “nation’s children are on a train that is headed for a cliff“.
She is indignant because she thinks our nation’s children need so much more than tests, and our teachers need support and respect.
She is right.
And she is right to be indignant.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
If your own child were on a train heading for a cliff, would you be reacting with indignation? There are a heck of a lot of teachers on the train with these children. Why can’t we turn it around?
Because most teachers are of the “go along to get along” crowd. Generally they don’t question authority and have, in the past, been able to work around most “reforms”. They don’t realize just how much the game has changed around them and how that will effect them.