This book contains papers presented at a conference on educational promise, performance, and expectations. Papers included in this volume are: (1) "Education in Australia: We Get What We Deserve" (S. Ball); (2) "The Size and Scale: What is Expected" (J. G. Owen); (3) "The Search for Educational Quality and Equality: A U. S. View" (A. Harry Passow); (4) "Community Expectations and the Secondary School Years" (C. W. Collins); (5) "Grading Schools--What Do We Expect and How Do They Rate" (N. Baumgart and C. Power); (6) "Giving an Account: Critics and Questioners" (J. G. Owen); (7) "Getting on with It: Classroom Disruption in the Primary Grades" (P. O'Brien); (8) "Pupils' and Teachers' Expectations for the Achievement of Year 4 Children" (J. Belme); (9) "Relationships between Family Characteristics and Primary School Related Outcomes" (A. Clark and P. O'Brien); (10) "Applications of Need-Press Theory in the Study of Australian Educational Environments" (J. M. Genn); (11) "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education--Promise and Performance" (J. Lublin); (12) "Educational Expectations--Today and Tomorrow: Common Curriculum and Individual Differences" (A. Harry Passow); (13) "The Physical Environment for Teaching and Learning" (C. J. McGuirk); (14) "All-Round Education: The Need for Personal Convictions" (M. F. Cusi); (15) "Challenge of the Eighties: Bringing Information Technology to People" (F. Barr-David); (16) "Communication and Expectations: The President's Address" (E. G. Eden); (17) "Expectations of Research in Colleges of Advanced Education" (J. G. Sekhon); and (18) "Making a Political Issue of Tertiary Education" (G. W. Jackson). (CJB)