Picking up the options -- Recruiting for the new partnership -- Who's in charge here? -- New life for the dodo -- Education's most crucial issue -- The city is a teacher -- Bear something away -- The 1966 desegregation guidelines: a situation report -- Education and the changing technology -- The heat in our kitchen -- A nation of amateurs -- The realities of the learning market -- Prose, poetry, and Black power -- Education, the quiet revolution -- My generation's finest achievement -- In defense of uselessness -- National policy for American education -- First-rate cities, first-rate schools -- Teaching for the future -- Peering across the generation gap -- The strength of a sparrow -- Changing the pecking order -- National ideals and educational policy.