New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. What do we really want from school? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children - but all possible advantages for our own. Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.