Contents

• Introduction / Maureen T. Hallinan
• I. School Organization and Governance. 1. Achievement-Oriented School Design / James S. Coleman. 2. Lost in Translation: Applying Total Quality Management to Schools, Colleges, and Universities / Aaron M. Pallas and Anna Neumann. 3. Markets for Organizational Reform: Private Education in Post-Communist Poland / Barbara Heyns. 4. Lessons from Catholic High Schools on Renewing Our Educational Institutions / Anthony S. Bryk. 5. School Choice in New York City: Preliminary Observations / Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Charlotte S. Lucks
• II. Organizing Students for Instruction. 6. Tracking Students for Instruction: Consequences and Implications for School Restructuring / Adam Gamoran and Maureen T. Hallinan. 7. Local Constraints on Opportunity to Learn Mathematics in High School / Jennifer S. Manlove and David P. Baker
• III. Classroom Processes. 8. Talking and Working Together: Conditions for Learning in Complex Instruction / Elizabeth G. Cohen, Rachel A. Lotan and Nicole Holthuis. 9. Academic Challenge, Motivation, and Self-Esteem: The Daily Experiences of Students in High School / Barbara Schneider, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Shaunti Knauth
• IV. School-to-Work Transitions. 10. Reforming Education: A Critical Overlooked Component / Alan C. Kerckhoff. 11. Creating Linkages in the High School-to-Work Transition: Vocational Teachers’ Networks / James E. Rosenbaum and Stephanie Alter Jones