Commissions, Reports, Reforms, and Educational Policy

RICK GINSBERG is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies, and codirector of the Office of Research in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina.DAVID N. PLANK is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State University. Together, Ginsberg and Plank edited Southern Cities, Southern Schools (Praeger, 1990).

• Foreword by Paul E. Peterson Introduction Commissions and Change by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank Producers and Consumers of Reform Reports A Nation at Risk: Ugly Duckling No Longer by Milton Goldberg and Anita Madan Renton A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century: The Report of the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy's Task Force on Teaching as a Profession by Marc Tucker Committee for Economic Development: Shaping Policies and Partnerships for America's Children by Laurie Miller McNeill and Sandra Kessler Hamburg Impact of Commission Reports in the South and on South Carolina's Comprehensive School Reform Efforts of the 1980s by Richard W. Riley and Terry K. Peterson Using Task Forces in Local Educational Agencies to Develop Educational Policy by Richard C. Wallace, Jr., Patricia Crawford, and Mary Ellen Kirby Analyzing Reform Reports: From Content to Impact The Rhetoric of School Reform Reports: Scared, Skeptical, and Cynical Interpretations by Noreen B. Garman and Patricia C. Holland Summits, Task Forces, and Commissions as Ceremonial Dance by Terrence E. Deal Substance and Symbolism in the Education of Commission Reports by Lars G. Bjork Teacher Professionalism and the Commission Reports: The Prospects for Creating a Learner-Centered Profession of Teaching by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barnett Berry Reform Reports: Omissions and Commissions Gender and the Reports: The Case of the Missing Piece by Lois Weis Minorities and Educational Reform: A Question of Equity and Excellence by Tom Thompson Why Do Educational Reform Commissions Fail to Address Special Education? by Michael M. Gerber and Melvyn I. Semmel Effective Schools...and Beyond by Charles L. Glenn Epilogue The Future of Reform Commissions by Rick Ginsberg and David N. Plank Index