Provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of education reform--from a system, district, and classroom standpoint--and examines the many perspectives of effective reform and implementation The contributors to this volume articulate, develop, and make explicit their own theories-in-action of educational change--the changes they want, why they want them, and how they believe they can be brought about and sustained--to help others reflect on change in their own situations. Contributors include: Andy Hargreaves, Michael Fullan, Linda Darling-Hammond, Sir Michael Barber, Andreas Schleicher, Marc S. Tucker, Dennis Shirley, Pedro A. Noguera, Jonathan D. Jansen, James P. Spillane, Richard F. Elmore, Douglas Reeves, and Ben Levin.