Introduction: The Changing Purposes of Education and Schooling: A Look Back.

CONCEPTS.

1. Public Schooling: Education for Democracy (Benjamin R. Barber).

2. The Meanings of? Public Education? (Theodore R. Sizer).

3. Education, Equity, and the Right to Learn (Linda Darling-Hammond).

4. On Restoring Public and Private Life (Gary D Fenstermacher).

5. Toward a Democratic Rhetoric of Schooling (Donna H. Kerr).

6. Democracy: Do We Really Want It? (Roger Soder).

CONVERSATIONS.

7. Education for Civility and Civitas (Panel Discussion).

8. Prospects for Reform (Conversation with the Audience).

A PUBLIC AGENDA?

9. Reprise and a Look Ahead (John I. Goodlad).