Winner of AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998 "While she recognizes the necessity for school reform and the complexity of implementing it, Darling-Hammond remains optimistic that systemic changes to ensure access to a meaningful education for all children are possible...
This title stresses the urgent need for structural reform within the U.S. public school system. "If only I could get every American who claims to be concerned about our schools to read this thoroughly readable, and brilliant book." -Deborah Meier, author of The Power of Their...