ABSTRACT
It’s always more challenging, risky, and more interesting, at least for this writer, to write about events as they are happening, rather than just looking in the rear view mirror; to write from the perspective of an active participant-observer rather than just observer. It’s risky because there is always the chance-not chance, but certainty-that you are wrong about some things and will have to live down what you put on paper today. is book is intended not as a history of school reform and the Ownership Society, as this account takes place in the stretched present. We are all still living in the midst of both the Ownership Society culture and the continuing movement for reform: two trains running in opposite directions. ings change fast.
