Part One: Classroom Mismanagement.

1. The Limits of Teaching Skills.

2. The Trouble with School Uniforms.

3. Beyond Discipline.

4. How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education.

Part Two: American Ideology Goes to School.

5. Resistance to Cooperative Learning: Making Sense of Its Deletion and Dilution.

6. "A Lot of Fat Kids Who Don't Like to Read": The Effects of Pizza Hut's Book It! Program and Other Reading Incentives.

7. Grading: The Issue is Not How But Why.

8. Grade Inflation and Other Red Herrings.

9. Only for My Kid: How Privileged Parents Undermine School Reform.

Part Three: Unquestioned Assumptions About Children.

10. Suffer the Restless Children: Unsettling Questions About the ADHD Label.

11. The Truth About Self-Esteem.

12. Television and Children: ReViewing the Evidence.

Part Four: Business as Usual.

13. The Five-Hundred-Pound Gorilla.

14. The False Premises of School Choice Plans.

15. Students Don't "Work"--They Learn.

16. The Littlest Customers: TQM Goes to School.

Part Five: Lessons Learned.

17. Caring Kids: The Role of the Schools.

18. Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide.

19. What to Look for in a Classroom.