Foreword / Jamie Vollmer
Preface: Confronting oppresive assessments: how parents, educators, and policymakers are rethinking current educational reforms / Walter S. Polka and John E. McKenna
What are really doing to our children? rethinking federal and state education reform policies / Walter S. Polka and John E. McKenna
Using an industrial-age paradigm for education is not smart, especially in the digital age / John E. McKenna and Walter S. Polka
Lack of joy in learning: parents want to know why children don't like school anymore / Douglas J. Regan and Mary Beth Carroll
Why teachers are frustrated / Ashli Dreher and Kathy Brown
High-stake test anxieties for all children: parents, teachers, and psychologists voice concerns / Laura Stewart-Beach, Kathy Brown, and Greg Fabiano
Principals with principles: the dilemma of implementing destructive policies / John E. McKenna, Charles Smilinich, Mark Mambretti, Douglas J. Regan, and Carol Burris
Superintendents' perspectives: fighting for local control and justice in eduction for all / Jeffrey Robert Rabey
Thoughts on what to do next at the local level / John E. McKenna and Walter S. Polk
Dwindling second chance: high school dropouts and the 2014 GED® exam / Rachael J. Rossi
Not everyone is a "teacher of the core" - even higher education is entagled in this reform movement - how do we get here? / Susan Krickovich and Donna C. Kester Phillips
Political perspectives regarding changing the current educational reform agenda: the winds of change are blowing stronger / Walter S. Polka and John E. McKenna
Why not create a brighter future for all of our students by legislative changes to the educational current reforms? What if we just do it? / John E. McKenna and Walter S. Polka
Appendix
Afterword / David C. Berliner.