1. Back to Basics in the Rural South.

2. Hand-Me-Down Literacy.

3. Language and Culture on the Reservation.

4. An Urban District: One Foot on the Gas, the Other on theBrakes.

5. The Politics of Literacy.

6. When Teachers Talk.

7. A Higher Literacy in Toronto.

8. Cultivating a Literacy of Thoughtfulness.

Guidelines for Program Review from the Ontario Ministry ofEducation.

"Captures the breadth, depth, and urgency of education reform....IrecommAnd it to other policy makers, whether they be in the midstof reform or contemplating it."

--Bill Clinton

"Brown imaginatively and uniquely connects rich portraits ofclassrooms with a vision of how public policy can encouragethoughtfulness in our schools."

--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of EssentialSchools, Brown University

"Captures the breadth, depth, and urgency of education reform....I
recommAnd it to other policy makers, whether they be in the midst
of reform or contemplating it."

--Bill Clinton

"Brown imaginatively and uniquely connects rich portraits of
classrooms with a vision of how public policy can encourage
thoughtfulness in our schools."

--Theodore R. Sizer, chairman, Coalition of Essential
Schools, Brown University

REXFORD G. BROWN is a senior fellow at the Education Commission of the States. He is the director of a five-year, million-dollar project, Policy and Higher Literacies, funded by the MacArthur Foundation. He has taught high school, college, and adult education.