Foreword / Stephanie Pace Marshall -- Introduction : Change in American education / Gordon Cawelti -- Equity : a call to action / Floretta Dukes McKenzie -- Progress toward professionalism in teaching / Linda Darling-Hammond and A. Lin Goodwin -- The growth of assessment / George F. Madaus and Ann G.A. Tan -- Curriculum reform / William H. Schubert -- Innovation, reform, and
restructuring strategies / Michael Fullan -- Inventing and reinventing ideas : constructivist teaching and learning in mathematics / Penelope L. Peterson and Nancy F. Knapp -- Change and continuity in supervision and leadership / Edward Pajak -- Important education-related U.S. Supreme Court decisions (1943-1993) / Cheryl D. Mills -- Conclusion : The search for a system / Gordon