Introduction / H. Beare and W. Lowe Boyd
Ready, A.I.M., reform: building a model of education reform and 'high politics' / J.W. Guthrie and J.E. Koppich
The education-reform movement in England and Wales / H. Thomas
Examinining contemporary education-reform efforts in the United States / J.E. Koppich and J.W. Guthrie
The reconstruction of New Zealand education: a case of 'high politics' reform? / R.J.S Macpherson
A decade of educational reform in Canada: Encounters with the octopus, the elephant, and the five dragons / S.B. Lawton
Developments in education policy in Australia: A perspective on the 1980s / L. Warren Louden and R.K. Browne
Education reform in Japan since 1984 / T. Sasamori
Paradox and uncertainty in the governance of education / B.J. Caldwell
On centralization, decentralization and school restructuring: a sociological perspective / R.O. Slater
Public schools in decline: implications of the privatization of schools in Australia / D.S. Anderson
Different ways of viewing school-site councils: whose paradigm is in use here? / H. Beare
A framework for allocating authority in a system of schools / A.D. Swanson.
