Foreword by Liesbeth Breek -- Foreword by Dick van der Wateren -- Acknowledgements -- The Emperor’s New Clothes Are Accounting Straitjackets: A Very Brief History of Federal School Reform and the Rise of Accountability, 1965–2015 -- Innovation in School Reform: Technology and the Impact on Curriculum and Teaching -- In-School Reform in High-Need Schools: Teaching the Next Generation -- Issues of Leadership in Successful School Reform: Central Importance of Leadership in Successful School Reform -- Multicultural Issues -- Special Education Issues -- Teachers in High-Need School Reform -- About the Contributors. .This book covers issues that pertain to high-need schools but the authors challenge the distinctions made in the research and reason that the issues are relevant to all schools. From the rise of accountability in the 1960s to now, high-need schools have been dealing with curriculum, program initiatives, and responding to diverse populations, typically without the resources necessary to implement change. In this book we discuss important issues that have to be tackled if we as educators will succeed in meeting the needs of the next generation. From education laws, use of technology, leadership, diversity and multicultural issues, teaching in high-need schools, curriculum and teaching student with special needs, the book explores both problems and solutions, changing the dialogue from one of blame and stasis to one of action and hope. .