Peter Schrag. Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in Americas Schools, New York: The New Press, 2003, 250 pp., ISBN 1–5658–4821–7 (hardcover, $25.95).

Describing the new wave of state court adequacy litigations as “the most promising as well as the last attempt” (p. 13) to fulfill the equal educational opportunity vision of Brown v. Board of Education, noted journalist and author Peter Schrag has written an important new book titled Final Test, which comprehensively describes the origins, current status, and future directions of what the book’s subtitle calls “the battle for education adequacy in America’s schools.”