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We need to change -- Schools : good and getting better? Or bad and getting worse? -- How did we get this way? : decent impulses gone astray -- What specifically is wrong? -- Lessons from other institutional turnarounds -- Applying these other lessons to schools -- The great promise of new American schools -- Other good news about schools -- The politics of change : agreeing to agree -- Agenda for change, part 1 : straightening out the system -- Agenda for change, part II : hardwiring innovation into the system -- Agenda for change, part III : ten ground rules to advance education reform -- Appendixes. A. Nine keys to systemic reform. B. Defining the terms of the standards debate. C. Resources for change. |
