This book provides a comprehensive overview of the education reform movement throughout the nation, and offers an agenda to ensure that United States schools will offer a world-class education. Twenty-seven educational reform and educational leaders from across the country examine the history of the educational reform movement and its current status across the country. The most salient topics in education reform are examined, such as accountability, assessment, certification, funding equity, unionization, community service requirements, educational choice, home schooling, Learnfare, magnet schools, Chris Wittle's Project Edison, and Ted Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools' philosophy. Co-published with the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives.