…Let's build models of school governance, management, and practice on a new foundation of teacher leadership. Ultimately this gives us the blueprint to restructure our system and dismantle the existing bureaucratic hierarchy.

John Wright, president, Arizona Education Association

McDonald recognizes the central importance of innovation in the design of schools…The right policies are critical to the design of our education systems for the 21st century.

Ron Johnson, senior vice president of retail operations, Apple Inc.

In New York we are running the kind of split screen McDonald describes in this book. It is working for innovation, and we are strengthening it.

Eric Nadelstern, chief schools officer, New York City Department of Education

In these pages McDonald points to how we can get better results at costs we can afford.

Curtis Johnson, managing partner, Education|Evolving and co-author of Disrupting Class, 2008 McGraw Hill

This book's…major contribution is the set of new and non-traditional policy ideas. They should get broad and serious attention.

Ted Kolderie, from the foreword