A legacy of learning : your stake in standards and new kinds of public schools / David T. Kearns and James Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

We need to change -- Schools : good and getting better? Or bad and getting worse? -- How did we get this way? : decent impulses gone astray -- What specifically is wrong? -- Lessons from other institutional turnarounds -- Applying these other lessons to schools -- The great promise of new American schools -- Other good news about schools -- The politics of change : agreeing to agree -- Agenda for change, part 1 : straightening out the system -- Agenda for change, part II : hardwiring innovation into the system -- Agenda for change, part III : ten ground rules to advance education reform -- Appendixes. A. Nine keys to systemic reform. B. Defining the terms of the standards debate. C. Resources for change.

"In A Legacy of Learning, Kearns and Harvey challenge parents, concerned citizens, and business leaders - as well as educators and policymakers - to consider a new definition of public education that supports uniform standards, greater innovation and flexibility, and as much choice as the system can stand."--Jacket.