This book provides a comprehensive review of the critical relationship between higher education institutions and K-12 schools, including an examination of higher education's role in implementing systemic school reform. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction: Higher Education and School Reform--A Missing Voice" (P. Michael Timpane and Lori S. White); (2) "'Something, But Not Very Much': School-University Partnerships in Historical Perspective" (Theodore R. Mitchell and Lawrence A. Torres); (3) "The Role of State Policy Systems in Fostering Separation or Collaboration" (Patrick M. Callan); (4) "School-College Partnerships" (Kati Haycock); (5) "The Challenge Teacher Education Presents for Higher Education" (Frank B. Murray); (6) "School Improvement and Higher Education" (David K. Cohen); (7) "Enhanced Academic Connections: Deweyan Waste, Ecological Pipelines, and Intellectual Vitality" (Donald M. Stewart and Michael Johanek); and (8) "Higher Education and the Schools: An Alien Commentary" (Harry Judge). Each chapter contains references. (SLD)