1. Introduction: The Educationally Challenged American School District / Evans Clinchy
Pt. I. Voices from the Front Lines: Boston
2. Journey Toward Autonomy / Linda Nathan and Larry Myatt
3. Smarter Charters? Creating Boston's Pilot Schools / Robert Pearlman
4. State's Role in Shaping a Progressive Vision of Public Education / Dan French
Pt. II. Voices from the Front Lines: New York City
5. Day in the Life of a Teacher in a Small School / Meredith Gavrin
6. Why Wasn't I Taught This Way? / Ellalinda Rustique-Forrester
7. Transformation of One Large Urban High School: The Julia Richman Education Complex / Ann Cook
8. Birthing New Visions Schools / Beth Lief
9. School Reform: A System's Approach / Judith A. Rizzo
10. Role of a Union in School-System Reform / David Sherman
11. Inching Toward Reform in New York City: The Coalition Campus Schools Project / Linda Darling-Hammond, Jacqueline Ancess and Kemly McGregor / [et al.]
Pt. III. Shape of Things to Come
12. Can the Odds Be Changed? What It Will Take to Make Small Schools Ordinary Practice / Deborah Meier
13. Contexts of Productive Learning, Governance, Charter Schools, Pilot Schools, the Creation of Settings, and the Wailing Wall / Seymour Sarason
14. New American School District / Evans Clinchy
App. Sources of Further Information, Networking, and Technical Assistance.
