PATRICIA A. WASLEY is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College in New York City. She has worked as a researcher for the Puget Sound Educational Consortium at the University of Washington, at the Coalition of Essential Schools and at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. She is the author of Stirring the Chalkdust (1994) and Teachers Who Lead (1991) ROBERT L. HAMPEL is a professor of education at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Last Little Citadel (1986). RICHARD W. CLARK is a senior associate with the Center for Educational Renewal, College of Education, University of Washington and a senior associate of the Institute for Educational Inquiry.