Introduction: Reform and Reinvention / James A. Beane
1. Reinventing the Middle School: A Proposal to Counter Arrested Development / Thomas S. Dickinson
2. School and the Child and the Child in the School / Debra Eckerman Pitton
3. Hope for Sandy: Transformation Points: A Reinvention Paradigm / Mary M. Gallagher-Polite
4. Arc of Equity in Reinvented Middle Schools / Janet E. McDaniel, Juan Necochea and Francisco A. Rios / [et al.]
5. Standards, Students, and Exploration: Creating a Curriculum Intersection of Excellence / P. Elizabeth Pate
6. Connecting Caring and Action: Teachers Who Create Learning Communities in Their Classrooms / David Strahan, Tracy W. Smith and Mike McElrath / [et al.]
7. On Headpieces of Straw: How Middle Level Students View Their Schooling / Richard R. Powell
8. High-Quality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty Middle Schools: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality / Douglas J. Mac Iver, Estelle Young and Robert Balfanz / [et al.]
9. Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents and Adult Learning / Thomas O. Erb
10. Our Turn? Teaming and the Professional Development of Teachers / Daniel L. Kain
11. Role of Technology for Learning in the Reinvented Middle School / Susan M. Powers, Cathleen D. Rafferty and B. J. Eib
12. Transformation and Context in Middle Grades Reform / Gayle A. Davis
13. Coming Together to Raise Our Children: Community and the Reinvented Middle School / Kim K. Ruebel
14. Engineering Success through Purposeful Articulation / Jeanneine P. Jones
15. Reinventing Middle Level Teacher Preparation via Professional Development Schools / Laura Van Zandt Allen and C. Kenneth McEwin
16. On a Good Day Everyone Grows: Reflections on the Reinvention of a School / Thomas S. Dickinson and Deborah A. Butler.