The Rising State: How State Power Is Transforming Our Nation's Schools, edited by Bonnie C. Fusarelli and Bruce S. Cooper, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009, 278 pp., $80.00, hardback.When Mayors Take Charge, edited by Joseph P. Viteritti, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009, 255 pp., $22.95, paperback.Collision Course: Federal Education Policy Meets State and Local Realities, by Paul Manna, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2011, 206 pp., $32.95, paperback.