1. School System Reform vs. School Reform
2. The Transformation Imperative
3. Classroom-Level Reasons for Low Performance
4. Guideposts for Transformational Reform
5. Improving the Federal Role Maybe by Ending it
6. Dynamic Customization/Matching Strategies
7. Central Plan Optimization 100 III. Subsidy Issues
8. The Appropriate Public-Private Subsidy Mix
9. Equity Issues—Universal access to high-quality schooling under different, plausible funding/governance approaches
10. Intellectual Prisoner of the Status Quo Issues
11. Critical Questions and Debilitating Fallacies
12. System Design Issues to Address through Research
13. Assessing Competition
14. Political Lynchpins and Transformation Transition Issues
15. Putting All of the Pieces Together for a Dynamic, Just, High-Performing School System