Introduction: Three's company
The wonder years: the wild world of NYC preschools
Gilligan's Island: stranded on a tropical island with a strange cast of characters
Mission impossible: welcome to Shanghai
Star trek: the next generation: education as a national value
Get smart: the meaning of mastery
The A team: China tops the global scene
Growing pains: coming "Home" to Japan?
Mr. Rogers' neighborhood: the community raises the independent and whole child
Macgyver: the problem-solving stuntman in the classroom, the teacher
Wonder woman: the mom behind the scenes
The twilight zone: our worst year in the best-ranked school district
Who's the boss? Education in a nation where capitalism, individuality, and freedom prevail
Cheers: to the great potential of the USA
Afterword: 20/20: hindsight.