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- Release Year
- 2002
- Book Title
- Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization
- ISBN
- 9780674008236
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674008235
ISBN-13
9780674008236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2253204
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Inside Charter Schools : the Paradox of Radical Decentralization
Language
English
Subject
Educational Policy & Reform / General, Public Policy / General, Educational Policy & Reform / Charter Schools, Finance
Publication Year
2002
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Education
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.1 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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As many public schools grow larger and more diverse, the charter school movement gains equal and opposite momentum statewide. Bruce Fuller has charted this movement as it gains momentum across the state and nation. His Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization offers a peek inside six such schools...Fuller steers clear of a blanket like-or-dislike viewpoint. Instead, he shows the problems individual charter schools face., This insightful...[and] wide-ranging discussion gives readers a real feel for what charter schools are like, allowing them to step inside a school and see what the hope and hype are all about...Providing no easy answers, this study offers practical lessons to parents, educators, and policymakers aiming for reform and support of public education as a whole., Published a decade after the introduction of charter schools, the most dynamic and important school reform movement in recent memory, this collection offers rare insight into charter classrooms as well as a framework for the public policy discussion that surrounds them...The book is at its best when it lets the stories of the schools speak for themselves, unable to answer the broad policy questions but helping readers understand their complexity., In this book Fuller offers six essays--as much works of journalism as they are academic pieces--on six very different charter school experiments...Fuller deftly ties the grab-bag together with his own opening and closing thoughts on the philosophical and political tension between allowing free-thinkers to experiment and maintaining a community commitment to free and equitable education for all...The book provides a useful benchmark for a movement that in many ways is just getting started.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
371.01
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Growing Charier Schools, Decentering the State Bruce Fuller The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context Bruce Fuller We Hold on to Our Kids, We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan Patty Yancey An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership Edward Wexler and Luis A. Huerta Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution Kate Zernike Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School Amy Stuart Wells, Jennifer Jellison Holme and Ash Vasudeva Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter Luis A. Huerta Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota Eric Rofes Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work Bruce Fuller Notes Contributors Index
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Synopsis
Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on public money but are largely independent of local school boards. Inside Charter Schools takes readers into six strikingly different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges and problems facing this young movement. Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents., The charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. This book provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.
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LB2806.36
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