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Inside Charter Schools : The Paradox of Radical Decentralization.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674037427
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inside Charter SchoolsDDC classification:
  • 371.01
LOC classification:
  • LB2806
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Charter Schools, Decentering the State: BRUCE FULLER -- 1 The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context: BRUCE FULLER -- 2 We Hold on to Our Kids, We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan: PATTY YANCEY -- 3 An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership: EDWARD WEXLER AND LUIS A. HUERTA -- 4 Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution: KATE ZERNIKE -- 5 Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School: AMY STUART WELLS, JENNIFER JELLISON HOLME, AND ASH VASUDEVA -- 6 Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter: LUIS A. HUERTA -- 7 Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota: ERIC ROFES -- 8 Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work: BRUCE FULLER -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Charter Schools, Decentering the State: BRUCE FULLER -- 1 The Public Square, Big or Small? Charter Schools in Political Context: BRUCE FULLER -- 2 We Hold on to Our Kids, We Hold on Tight: Tandem Charters in Michigan: PATTY YANCEY -- 3 An Empowering Spirit Is Not Enough: A Latino Charter School Struggles over Leadership: EDWARD WEXLER AND LUIS A. HUERTA -- 4 Selling Air: New England Parents Spark a New Revolution: KATE ZERNIKE -- 5 Diversity and Inequality: Montera Charter High School: AMY STUART WELLS, JENNIFER JELLISON HOLME, AND ASH VASUDEVA -- 6 Losing Public Accountability: A Home Schooling Charter: LUIS A. HUERTA -- 7 Teachers as Communitarians: A Charter School Cooperative in Minnesota: ERIC ROFES -- 8 Breaking Away or Pulling Together? Making Decentralization Work: BRUCE FULLER -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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