Part one: Great schools -- More than a donation: education with public purpose -- Leadership for navigating great American schools -- Sustaining a "sacred" education symbols, stories, and ceremonies -- Part two: School renewal: ironies and challenges -- Good school and effective schools: what do we want? -- Pretending not to know what we know -- Pushing school reform to a new edge: the seven ironies of school empowerment -- Unlocking school reform: uncertainty as a condition of professionalism -- Part three: Instructional leadership -- The essence of school renewal: the prose has begun -- Developing teacher thought -- Looking at classroom teaching and learning -- The supervisor's challenge: changing the teacher's work environment -- Part four: Teaching, learning, and service -- Democratic education: Judy and the dance -- Listening to students -- Co-reform as an approach to change in education: the origin of revolution -- Part five: Standards, policies, and authority -- Open accountability for the 1990s: between the pillars -- Holding sacred ground: the impact of standardization -- Dichotomizing education: why no one wins and America loses -- Standards, freedom, and authority: systemic sense about school--a commissioned proposal to the Georgia Governor's Commission on educational reform -- Part six: The crux of education, democracy, and the future of our place -- Revolution, education, and the practice of democracy -- A discourse on education and democracy -- A. Original essay: educational leadership for democratic purpose: what do we mean? -- B. Commentary: the grave dangers in the discourse on democracy -- C. Commentary: a response to the discourse on democracy: a dangerous retreat -- Going public: the imperative of public education in the twenty-first century -- The long haul: progressive education and keeping the faith -- Appendix A: Has Sam and Samantha's time come at last? -- Appendix B: Reflections on facilitating school improvements: issues of value.
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