Books, Arts & Manners: Commonsense in Education

Classroom Countdown: Education at the Crossroads

By Max Rafferty Hawthorn Books, 117 pp., $6.95 Although the reader of Classroom Countdown might not guess that Dr. Max Rafferty is a good-natured man, actually this former superintendent of public instruction in California is even-tempered and humorous. A couple of months ago he was defeated in his endeavor to win a third term in office; the losers are California’s children. But he is unlikely to sink into obscurity.