To provide all children with quality education, teachers must rethink their educational philosophies, according to the president of the American Reading Council. Traditional teaching methods, including phonics, basal readers, tracking, and standardized testing appear to be the cause of school failure. The efficacy of the current models of reform such as site-based management/site-based decision making (SBM/SDM) and school choice should also be questioned. Quality education will be achieved if schools adopt the guidelines of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and increase parental involvement. Influential lay decision makers are the key to overcoming present obstacles to change in the educational community. (SG)