The Sharp edge of educational change : teaching, leading, and the realities of reform / edited by Nina Bascia and Andy Hargreaves.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- Teaching and leading on the sharp edge of change / Nina Bascia and Andy Hargreaves -- Part II. Courses of change -- The attrition of educational change over time : the case of innovative, model, Lighthouse schools / Dean Fink -- Leadership succession, cultures of teaching and educational change / Robert B. Macmillan -- Change agentry and the quest for equity : lessons from detracking schools / Jeannie Oakes ... [et al.] -- Changing classroom assessment : teachers' struggles / Lorna Earl and Steven Katz -- The impact of mandated change on teachers / Beverley Bailey -- Part III. Contexts of change -- Gender politics in school reform / Amanda Datnow -- In the margins : the work of racial minority immigrant teachers / Nina Bascia and Dennis Theissen -- Changing schools in a changing world / Benjamin Levin and J. Anthony Riffel -- Part IV. Prospects for change -- Inside-outside change facilitation : structural and cultural considerations / Wayne Seller and Lynne Hannay -- Professionals and parents : a social movement for educational change? / Andy Hargreaves.