FrontMatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Need for a New Partnership -- 2 Helping Hercules: Why Infrastructure Matters -- 3 The SERP Organization -- 4 SERP Networks: Who Would Come and What Would They Do? -- 5 Charting a Course of Action -- References -- A Federal Investments in Education Research: A Sobering History -- B SERP Cost Projections: A Scenario for the Proof-of-Concept Period -- C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff.