1. Introduction
2. The controversy over equality of educational opportunity: the legal-financial issue
3. The clash between cognitive and affectice views of education
4. Conflicts over genetic and environmental determinants of intelligence
5. Conflicts over the education of culturally different groups
6. Emerging power relationships in school control
7. Alternatives to traditional schooling
8. The school and the counterculture
9. Technology and schooling
10. The challenge of accountability