A nation reformed? : American education 20 years after "A nation at risk" / edited by David T. Gordon ; foreword by Patricia Albjerg Graham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Riding waves, trading horses: the twenty-year effort to reform education / Susan H. Fuhrman -- Change and improvement in educational reform / Richard F. Elmore -- The academic imperative: new challenges and expectations facing school leaders / Timothy Knowles -- A principal looks back: standards matter / Kim Marshall -- Teaching: from A nation at risk to a profession at risk? / Pam Grossman -- Still at risk: the causes and costs of failure to educate poor and minority children for the twenty-first century / Jeff Howard -- The limits of ideology: curriculum and culture wars / David T. Gordon -- Missed opportunities: why the federal response to A nation at risk was inadequate / Maris A. Vinovskis -- The emerging state leadership role in education reform: notes of a participant observer / Robert B. Schwartz -- The American way of school reform / Nathan Glazer -- A nation at risk / National Commission on Excellence in Education