"To read [this book] is to step into the heads and minds of those who courageously make restructuring happen. This is a richly textured and deeply thoughtful book, full of imagery, free from jargon."

–Andy Hargreaves, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

"These up-close instances of school change take us into the struggle of reinventing culture and practice to illuminate the ways in which the multiple contexts of school both enable and frustrate The Work of Restructuring Schools."

–Milbrey McLaughlin, Stanford University

"It is important that we have careful and useful reports from the field, ones which chronicle what is happily possible and why. This important volume gives these to us and signals approaches that deserve new and protected prominence."

–Theodore R. Sizer, Coalition of Essential Schools