CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Curriculum Wars -- 2 "Ours Is Not to Reason Why. Just Invert and Multiply": School Mathematics and Its Critics -- 3 Capturing Professional Consensus: The California State Department, 1983-1990 -- 4 Earlier Reforms and Their Legacies -- 5 Networks and Their Leaders: Broadcasting and Shaping Reform -- 6 Riding the Tiger: The California State Department, 1990-1992 -- 7 The Tide Turns: 1993-1995 -- 8 Dueling Standards -- 9 Parsnips and Orchids Side by Side: A View from the Classroom -- 10 Toward a Civil, Constructive Discourse -- Methodological Appendix: "This Frightful Toil" -- Timeline -- NOTES -- INDEX.