Introduction : who should be in charge of our schools? / Noel Epstein --
Turning points : a history of American school governance / Michael W. Kirst --
The Tenth Amendment and other paper tigers : the legal boundaries of education governance / James E. Ryan --
Recovering from an accident : repairing governance with comparative advantage / Paul T. Hill --
A solution that lost its problem : centralized policymaking and classroom gains / Larry Cuban --
Less than meets the eye : standards, testing, and fear of federal control / Susan H. Fuhrman --
A teacher supply policy for education : how to meet the "highly qualified teacher" challenge / Linda Darling-Hammond and Gary Sykes --
Multiple choice questions : the road ahead / Henry M. Levin --
The American kibbutz? : managing the school's family role / Noel Epstein.
