Table of Contents

Foreword by Paul E. Peterson
Introduction
Commissions and Change by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank
Producers and Consumers of Reform Reports
A Nation at Risk: Ugly Duckling No Longer by Milton Goldberg and Anita Madan Renton
A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century: The Report of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession by Marc Tucker
Committee for Economic Development: Shaping Policies and Partnerships for America's Children by Laurie Miller McNeill and Sandra Kessler Hamburg
Impact of Commission Reports in the South and on South Carolina's Comprehensive School Reform Efforts of the 1980s by Richard W. Riley and Terry K. Peterson
Using Task Forces in Local Educational Agencies to Develop Educational Policy by Richard C. Wallace, Jr., Patricia Crawford, and Mary Ellen Kirby
Analyzing Reform Reports: From Content to Impact
The Rhetoric of School Reform Reports: Scared, Skeptical, and Cynical Interpretations by Noreen B. Garman and Patricia C. Holland
Summits, Task Forces, and Commissions as Ceremonial Dance by Terrence E. Deal
Substance and Symbolism in the Education of Commission Reports by Lars G. Björk
Teacher Professionalism and the Commission Reports: The Prospects for Creating a Learner-Centered Profession of Teaching by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barnett Berry
Reform Reports: Omissions and Commissions
Gender and the Reports: The Case of the Missing Piece by Lois Weis
Minorities and Educational Reform: A Question of Equity and Excellence by Tom Thompson
Why Do Educational Reform Commissions Fail to Address Special Education? by Michael M. Gerber and Melvyn I. Semmel
Effective Schools…and Beyond by Charles L. Glenn
Epilogue
The Future of Reform Commissions by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank
Index