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What makes a school good-or bad, for that matter? And what can be done to make a bad school better? The School Book is by the educator-authors whose Teaching as a Subversive Activity gave teachers a new view of their profession and whose Soft Revolution is an essential for students who want to change their schools constructively. Here they address themselves, with their usual wit and clarity, to the third group of people concerned with schooling-parents: "the amateurs," as the authors write, "whose most important possessions must be placed in the hands of professionals."