The National Responsibility for Equality of Educational Opportunity — John Hope Franklin (1984
Census 2000 Is Coming! — Harold Hodgkinson (1999)
The Legacy of All Deliberate Speed — Pedro Noguera & Robert Cohen (2004)
Racism Explained to My White Daughter — Patricia M. Cooper (2005)

Part Three: Testing Well, Testing Early

By All Measures: Coming to Terms on World-Class Standards — Albert Shanker (1992)
By All Measures: “Just Another False Chase” — Deborah Meier (1992)
Is There a Standard for Meeting Standards? — Lewis A. Rhodes (1993)
The Need for Anti-Babel Standards — Howard Gardner (1994)
Confusing Harder with Better — Alfie Kohn (1999)
The Tests We Need — E. D. Hirsch (2000)
Multiple Measures — Ron Wolk (2004)

Part Four: Curriculum in the Classroom

Part Five: Technology and Learning

Black to the Future — Henry Louis Gates (2000)
The Technology Puzzle — Larry Cuban (1999)
Seeking Edutopia — Milton Chen (2001)
Preparing Students for Work in a Computer-Filled Economy — Frank Levy & Richard J. Murnane (2004)

Part Six: Democracy and Virtue

Teaching Integrity: The Boundaries of Moral Education — Edwin J. Delattre (1990)
Helping Children with Scary News--Written in 1991 in Response to the Persian Gulf War — Fred Rogers & Hedda Bluestone Sharapan (1991)
Teaching the “Other Half” of Democracy’s Story — Ralph Nader (1993)
Now Is the Time to Teach Democracy — Diane Ravitch (2001)
Teaching for Wisdom in Our Schools — Robert Sternberg (2--2)

Part Seven: Change and Reform

A Nation in Wait — John I. Goodlad (2003)
Questioning Cliches of Education Reform — Chester E. Finn (1989)
On Lame Horses and Tortoises — Theodore R. Sizer (1997)
Is the Comprehensive High School Doomed — W. Norton Grubb & Marvin Lazerson (2004)
Seek Simplicity . . . and Distrust It — Lee S. Shulman (2005)

Part Eight: Charters and Choice

Creating an Entrepreneurial School System — Marc S. Tucker (1989)
Make Public Schools More Like Private — Adam Urbanski (1996)
Charter Schools: Escape or Reform — Marc Dean Millot, Paul T. Hill, & Robin Lake (1996)
For-Profit Schooling: Where’s the Public Good — Linda Darling-Hammond (1992)
Competing for Our Clients — Dorothy Rich (1999)

Part Nine: Inspiring Leadership

Schools Must Reconnect Pupils, Cultivate Leadership for Change — Bill Clinton (1986)
Old Questions Will Produce Old Answers to the Problem of Educational Leadership — Allen Berger (1982)
Pooling Our Resources — Suzanne Tingley (1996)
The Principalship: Looking for Leaders in a Time of Change — Mildred Collins Pierce & Leslie T. Fenwick (2000)