This document condenses the recommendations of 10 major reports: "The Paideia Proposal"; "America's Competitive Challenge: The Need for a National Response"; "High School: A Report on Secondary Education in America"; "Academic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do"; "A Place Called School: Prospects for the Future"; "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform"; "Educating Americans for the 21st Century"; "Meeting the Need for Quality: Action in the South"; "Action for Excellence: A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Our Nation's Schools"; "Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Policy." The reports are summarized in four major areas: (1) recommendations about curriculum (goals, core curriculum, mastery of language, computers and new technology, vocational education); (2) recommendations about teachers and teaching (better training, better and different compensation, better working conditions, certification, connecting teachers with the outside world, teaching); (3) recommendations about school organization and management (administrative policy, staffing, structure of the school day/week/year); and (4) recommendations about process and roles: groups outside the school (federal government, state governments, school districts, colleges and universities, leaders outside education). Notes on the major recommendations are listed in tables. The document also includes a list of upcoming national reports. (PB)