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Linda was the first curator of the Amazon Books bricks-and-mortar bookstore chain and managed the nonfiction and lifestyle book selection. Before that she was a freelance book editor and a consultant to several nonprofits and foundations in the fields of K-12 and higher education. She worked at The Washington Post from 1994 to 2004, as a copy editor, graphics editor, and, for most of those years, a staff writer covering education. She is the author of Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers and Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade.

From 2008 to 2011, Linda was the Education Writers Association’s first public editor. More than 400 education reporters came to Linda for coaching, and she wrote the Educate ...more

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	Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers 3.45 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade 3.97 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.”
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“It's one thing to expect teachers to challenge each child, and expect kids to do their best. It's another to expect that the best will be the same for everyone.”
― Linda Perlstein, Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

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