One: The Purpose of Schooling 1. What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated? 2. Turning Learning into a Business 3. The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement
Two: Standards and Testing 4. confusing Harder with Better 5. Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests 6. Standardized Testing and Its Victims 7. Sacrificing Learning for Higher Scores 8. Two Cheers for an End to the SAT
Three: Grading and Evaluating 9. From Degrading to De-Grading 10. The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation 11. Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"
Four: Moral, Social, and Psychological Questions 12. Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools 13. September 11 14. A Fresh Look at Abraham Maslow
Five: School Reform and the Study of Education 15. Almost There, But Not Quite 16. Education's Rotten Apples 17. The Folly of Merit Pay 18. Professors Who Profess: making a Difference as Scholar-Activist | 
