For those interested in educational policy, I recommend reading the Cato Policy Report titled, Educational Pluralism and Social Conflict. The report shows how top-down educational planning causes social strife such as that facing the United States today, and provides examples of how other democratic nations have successfully reduced the intensity of this conflict by implementing educational pluralism.
My proposal for reducing the social unrest that our one-size-fits-nobody educational system has been fomenting within the United States is a little different from theirs, and can be found here.