The Assessment Bridge uses four major components to span the gaps between testing, curriculum, and change. The book focuses on the context in which educational testing operates and suggests a view of testing, not as a narrowing of the curriculum, but as a way to deepen teachers involvement in creating the ideas that must be assessed so that teachers can create curriculum and instruction appropriate to their students. The chapters are: (1) Defining the Problem: The Historical Context; (2) Schools at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Problems and Proposed Solutions; (3) Taking the First Steps toward Productive Change; (4) The Assessment Roadway: How Tests Tell Us What To Do; (5) Responding to High-Stakes, Standards-Based (HSSB) Tests: Restructuring Curriculum; (6) Building a Cohort of the Best Teachers: Recruitment, Engagement, Nurturance; and (7) Searching for Leadership. (Contains 173 references and an index.) (SLD)