ABSTRACT
As my luck would have it (it's always good), I sit beside Frank Smith, a Columbia University Teachers College professor who first offered workshops for the principal and teachers when the State Department of Education "took over" the school. "What does it mean for a school to be taken over by the state?" I ask
tendent, reassigns or removes the principal, and replaces the central office staff. At School2, the principal was replaced with Lynn Liptak who, in 1996, became interested in Japanese teaching methods after attending Frank's workshop on the design and results of the TIMSS study (see Chapter 1 for information on TIMSS).
