Includes interviews with Tom Vander Ark, Executive Director for Education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Kathleen Cotton, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory researcher; Patricia McNeil, former Assistant Secretary o f Education for the U.S. Department of Education; Valerie Lee, Professor of Education at the University of Michigan; Craig Howley, director of ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools; Mike Endress, lead teacher at Phoenix Academy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Tom Gregory, Professor of Education at Indiana University; Mary Ann Raywid, Professor Emeritus at Hofstra University; Mark Buesgen, Minnesota state representative and school administrator; Tom Vandervest, middle school principal in Middleton, Wisconsin; Mike Klonsky, co-directory of Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago