Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and codirector of the New Standards Project, the nation's largest effort to create a system of performance standards for our schools. The creator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and co-author of America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, he also coauthored the prize-winning Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. Judy B. Codding is vice-president for programs at the National Center on Education and the Economy. A former teacher at the elementary, middle and high school levels, Codding has also been an award-winning principal of one of Los Angeles' toughest high schools as well as of some of the wealthiest schools in New York's Westchester county. She was one of four charter principals who participated in the creation of Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools.

• AcknowledgmentsThe AuthorsPrologue: The View from the Plains 1Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option 17Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I? 251 Setting High Standards for Everyone 31Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II? 652 Teaching to the Standards 73Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0 1013 Leading and Managing for Success 107Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted 1334 Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools 139Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy 1695 Beyond the Comprehensive High School 175Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style 2096 Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability 217Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff 245A The National Center on Education and the Economy 251B New Standards Performance Standards 255C New Standards Reference Examinations 291D Resources for Standards-Based Education 301E Glossary 313F Annotated Bibliography 323Notes 331Index 335

Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and codirector of the New Standards Project, the nation's largest effort to create a system of performance standards for our schools. The creator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and co-author of America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, he also coauthored the prize-winning Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. Judy B. Codding is vice-president for programs at the National Center on Education and the Economy. A former teacher at the elementary, middle and high school levels, Codding has also been an award-winning principal of one of Los Angeles' toughest high schools as well as of some of the wealthiest schools in New York's Westchester county. She was one of four charter principals who participated in the creation of Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools.

• AcknowledgmentsThe AuthorsPrologue: The View from the Plains 1Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option 17Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I? 251 Setting High Standards for Everyone 31Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II? 652 Teaching to the Standards 73Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0 1013 Leading and Managing for Success 107Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted 1334 Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools 139Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy 1695 Beyond the Comprehensive High School 175Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style 2096 Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability 217Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff 245A The National Center on Education and the Economy 251B New Standards Performance Standards 255C New Standards Reference Examinations 291D Resources for Standards-Based Education 301E Glossary 313F Annotated Bibliography 323Notes 331Index 335

Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and codirector of the New Standards Project, the nation's largest effort to create a system of performance standards for our schools. The creator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and co-author of America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, he also coauthored the prize-winning Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. Judy B. Codding is vice-president for programs at the National Center on Education and the Economy. A former teacher at the elementary, middle and high school levels, Codding has also been an award-winning principal of one of Los Angeles' toughest high schools as well as of some of the wealthiest schools in New York's Westchester county. She was one of four charter principals who participated in the creation of Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools.

• AcknowledgmentsThe AuthorsPrologue: The View from the Plains 1Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option 17Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I? 251 Setting High Standards for Everyone 31Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II? 652 Teaching to the Standards 73Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0 1013 Leading and Managing for Success 107Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted 1334 Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools 139Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy 1695 Beyond the Comprehensive High School 175Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style 2096 Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability 217Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff 245A The National Center on Education and the Economy 251B New Standards Performance Standards 255C New Standards Reference Examinations 291D Resources for Standards-Based Education 301E Glossary 313F Annotated Bibliography 323Notes 331Index 335