This book is about doing whatamprsquos right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence planned instructional standardization and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators parents students community members and policymakers have decided to protest against current state and federal educational policies and procedures. The practical experiences of parents teachers principals school superintendents school board members and professors are analyzed in chapters of this book. Their firsthand experiences with the various components of the current reform movement are poignantly presented. Through their voices the frustrations with the serious flaws associated with this reform agenda are passionately and logically articulated. They comprehensively explain their personal and professional motivations for organizing and fomenting a rethinking in school reform implementation procedures and they advocate their ampldquosmarter approachamprdquo to school reforms in our country. The book includes key references that elucidate the need to seriously rethink the directions and strategies of contemporary schooling in order to maintain enlightened creative instruction based on exciting studentcentered curriculum experiences and professional educational judgments.