CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND TO EDUCATIONAL CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES -- 1. Not All Caterpillars Become Butterflies: Reform And Restructuring As Educational Change by Nancy P Greenman -- 2. Certification To Credentialing: Reconstituting Control Mechanisms In Teacher Education by Thomas S. Popkewitz and Marie Brennan -- 3. Is Change Always Good For Teachers? Gender, Class, And Teaching In History by Michael W. Apple -- 4. Pathways To Institutional Change: From The Deans' Network To The Holmes Group by Barbara Schneider and Stafford Hood -- 5. The 1989 Education Summit As A Defining Moment In The Politics Of Education by Susan R. Martin -- 6. It Was More Than A Thirty Tears' War, But Instruction Of Education In The Industrial Society by Erwin V. Johanningmeier -- PART II. RHETORIC VERSUS REFORM AND RESTRUCTURING IN THE DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY -- 7. Community Involvement And Staff Development In School Improvement by William T. Pink and Kathryn M. Borman -- 8. Monitoring The Implementation Of Radical Reform: Restructuring The Chicago Public Schools by G. Alfred Hess, Jr. and John Q. Easton -- 9. Educational Reform And The Urban School Superintendent: A Dilemma by Louis Castenell, Cornell Brooks, and Patricia Z. Timm -- 10. Improving Parent Involvment As School Reform: Rhetoric Or Reality? by Marianne N. Bloch and B. Robert Tabachnick -- PART III. RHETORIC VERSUS REFORM AND RESTRUCTURING IN THE SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM -- 11. Can Multicultural Education Foster Transcultural Identities? by Dorothy Angell -- 12. Using The Future To Create Community And Curricular Change by Julie Binko -- 13. Personalizing The Social Organization Of Middle-Level Schools: Does Interdisciplinary Teaming Make A Difference? by Joanne M. Arhar.

14. Beliefs, Myths, And Realities: A Case Study Of A School In Transition by W. Wade Burley and Arthur S. Shapiro -- 15. Interactions Among School And College Teachers: Toward Recognizing And Remaking Old Patterns by Chester H. Laine, Lucille M. Schultz -- and M. Lynne Smith -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.