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Discusses various aspects of integrating students by breaking up ability groups, which many believe to be racist and stultifying to underprivileged children.

The principal of a most successful public school, Central Park East (CPE) in East Harlem, defends public education and advocates breaking up large school into small schools, choice within the public school system, respect, teaching that connects learning to real world activities, and a new ideal of being "well-educated.".

Author merges cognitive science with the educational agenda, showing how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational practices.

Answers questions and discusses the problems of implementing school reform in the U.S. as outlined in the "Paideia Proposal," which calls for an educational system that prepares students to earn a living, assume the duties of citizenship in a democracy, and continue their self-development after all schooling has been completed.

A collection of essays in which American education expert Richard F. Elmore explores topics of educational reform, including school leadership, standards and achievement, accountability, unwarranted intrusion, and more.