This volume summarizes the reports of the following commissions and study groups on secondary school reform: (1) National Commission on Excellence in Education ("A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform"); (2) Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ("High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America," by Ernest Boyer); (3) John Goodlad's Study of Schooling ("A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future"); (4) Paideia Group ("The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto," by Mortimer Adler); (5) Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Education ("Making the Grade"); (6) College Board Educational EQuality Project ("Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do"); (7) Education Commission of the States ("Action for Excellence: A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Our Nation's Schools"); (8) National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology ("Educating Americans for the 21st Century: A Report to the American People and the National Science Board"); (9) A Study of High Schools, sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the National Association of Independent Schools ("Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School," by Theodore Sizer); (10) The Need for Quality Project, sponsored by the Task Force on Higher Education and the Southern Regional Education Board ("The Need for Quality"); (11) a study by Gerald Grant, at Syracuse University, that grew out of a request by the National Council on Educational Research for a report on what makes a good school ("Education, Character and American Schools: Are Effective Schools Good Enough?"); (12) a project initiated by Stephen Bailey to examine historical and comtemporary values which underlie public education ("An Education of Value," by Marvin Lazerson et al.); (13) Wisconsin Program for the Renewal and Improvement of Secondary Education ("Improvement of Secondary Education through Research: Five Longitudinal Case Studies," by Herbert Klausmeier et al.); (14) Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ("Redefining General Education for the American High School," by Gordon Cawelti); and (15) the Scarsdale Group ("The Scarsdale Conference on the College-Preparatory High School," by Barbara Fogel). (ML)