These three volumes contain articles related to (1) improving educational productivity (lessons from economics); (2) school-to-work (STW); and (3) reduced class size, offering recommendations from national invitational conferences. Topics include making schools work; tax revolts and school performance; market pressure and the impact on performance; state aid and education outcomes; economics of grade retention; enhancing teacher quality to improve student achievement; measuring school efficiency; examining school-level expenditures and school performance in New York City; the relationship between student performance and school expenditures; the nexus between educational inputs, distribution of performance, and incentives; problems in estimating school effects; STW accomplishments and problems; youth labor market in the 1990s; STW governance; school-employer partnerships and student outcomes; developing work-based learning pedagogies; the impact of STW on minority students; career academies and high school reform around the STW movement; international perspectives on vocational/technical education; class size evaluation lessons; evaluation of the federal Class-Size Reduction Program; evaluating the effects of statewide class-size reduction initiatives; balancing breadth and depth of content coverage; class size reductions and special education referrals and placements; lessons for teachers; outcomes of small classes; professional development and support needs related to class size reduction; and students' sense of community. (SM)