Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- An Introduction to Market Role Assessment: Government's Functions in a Mixed Economy -- Market Role Assessment: Economic Goods and Market Roles -- The Regulator: Who Makes and Enforces the Rules? -- The Administrator: Who Is Responsible for Day-to-Day Operations? -- The Distributor/Allocator: Who Is Responsible for Allocating Access to Education and Ensuring Its Delivery to Students? -- The Producer: Who Is Responsible for ~Producing~ the Education? -- The Auditor: Who Provides Quality Control for the System? -- The Financier: Who Pays the Bills, and How? -- The Entrepreneur: Who Is the Source of Innovation? Who Bears the Risk of Innovation? -- Common Ground: An Evaluation of Government's Role in Primary and Secondary Education -- School Finance Reform in Practice: What Can We Learn from Recent Experience? -- Regulatory and Other Nonfinancial School Reforms: Has a Change in Government's Role Been for the Better? -- School Reform for the Twenty-First Century: Can We Find the Path to Success? -- Epilogue: School Reform and the Twenty-First Century Public Administrator -- Bibliography -- Index.