Problems and opportunities in educational reform at all educational levels are considered in this collection of 18 articles. Titles and authors are as follows: Introduction (William J. Johnston); "Evidence of Decline in Educational Standards" (Philip N. Marcus); "Standards--by What Criteria?" (Francis Keppel); "Educational Standards: A Public Educator's View" (Ruth B. Love); "Building Effective Elementary Schools" (Madeline Hunter); "Secondary Education" (Paul M. Possemato); "A View of Standards in Postsecondary Education" (Hobert W. Burns); "Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools" (Sally B. Kilgore); "California's Reform Program" (Bill Honig); "A Preliminary Diagnosis: The California Experience" (James D. Likens); "Teacher Education: Rhetoric or Real Reform?" (Bernard R. Gifford and Trish Stoddart); "Teacher Bargaining: Teacher Quality, Student Achievement, Public Control" (Robert E. Doherty); "Collective Bargaining with Educational Standards" (Albert Shanker); "Electronic Technologies and the Learning Process" (Richard Simonds, James Wiebe); "Educational Standards and the Technological University" (George Bugliarello); "A Ministry of Education for the United States? The Problem of Accreditation" (Glenn Dumke); "The Quest for Reason Amidst the Rhetoric of Reform: Improving Instead of Testing Our Schools" (Kenneth A. Sirotnik, John I. Goodlad); and "America's Schools: The Mission" (Ernest L. Boyer). (SW)