This volume presents a range of research and perspectives dedicated to advancing understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. The eight chapters are: (1) "Organizational Learning in High-Stakes Accountability Environments: Lessons from an Urban School District" (Helen M. Marks and Susan M. Printy); (2) "Sources of Victory, Seeds of Defeat: Linking Enactment Politics and Implementation Developments" (Donna Redmond Jones and Betty Malen); (3) "Interest Groups in National Reading Policy: Perceived Influence and Beliefs on Teaching Reading" (Mengli Song and Cecil G. Miskel); (4) "Bridging and Buffering Parent Involvement in Schools: Managing Exchanges of Social and Cultural Resources" (Rodney T. Ogawa and Susan Clark Studer); (5) "Teachers' Work and Instructional Management, Part I: Alternative Views of the Task of Teaching" (Brian Rowan); (6) "Teachers' Work and Instructional Management, Part II: Does Organic Management Promote Expert Teaching?" (Brian Rowan); (7) "Collective Efficacy and School Organization: A Multilevel Analysis of Teacher Influence in Schools" (Roger D. Goddard); and (8) "A Test of a Model of School Achievement in Rural Schools: The Significance of Collective Efficacy" (Wayne K. Hoy, Page A. Smith, and Scott R. Sweetland). Each chapter concludes with a bibliography. (RT)