Peter Sacks

Peter Sacks is the author of several books. He's the author of Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (University of California Press); Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What we can do to Change it (Perseus); and Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (Open Court). He has received numerous journalism awards, including Book of the Year from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for his book, Tearing Down the Gates. He currently lives in Northern California.