The Educational reform movement of the 1980s: perspectives and cases

Introduction. The educational reform movement of the 1980s : a comprehensive analysis / Joseph Murphy

Passage of rites : on the history of educational reform in the United States / Donald Warren

Perspectives on reform. Balancing control and autonomy in school reform : the politics of perestroika / William Lowe Boyd

State fiscal policy and education reform / K. Forbis Jordan and Mary P. McKeown

Catch the wave : reform commissions and school reform / David N. Plank and Rick Ginsberg

Continuity and incrementalism after all : state responses to the excellence movement / William A. Firestone

Local response to the 1980s state education reforms : new patterns of local and state interaction / Allan Odden and David Marsh

Reform cases and themes. Teacher-testing programs / Martha M. McCarthy

Career ladders and work in schools / Ann Weaver Hart and Michael J. Murphy

Statewide testing and local improvement : an oxymoron? / Bruce L. Wilson and H. Dickson Corbett.