This new book presents ttre results of a two-year policy study by the Work in America Institute and reveals how teachers, unions, and administrators can work together to raise educational standards and achieve continual improrement in such important areas as grading, curriculum, instructional techniques, discipline, hiring and evaluation procedures, and in-service development. The book identifies the critical difference between effective and ineffective reforms-the direct, ongoing involvement of teachers. Drawing on case studies of successful alliances in diverse public school systems nationwide and the recommendations of a national advisory cornmittee of leaders in education, business, and governrnent, it explains that the ke,v to achieving lasting reform in education lies in effective alliances between teaclters, unions, and management. And it shows how alliances can be designed to identify and solve the real obstacles to student achievement and teacher satisfaction-such as overcrowded classes and inadequate facilities for faculty.